"But what are you talking about, Daddy? I don't understand. You moved the what now?" I ask him, a little dazed as my mind tries to process what he just said or figure out if I hadn't misheard him just now. "I said, I moved the Opponia estate near the Academy. There's an empty spot nearby and I thought it's a nice place where we can easily come and go there as we please without traveling so much. That way, whenever you wanted to go out to Aster and are too late to come back to your school dorm, you can always go home since our estate is nearby. Very convenient, huh?" Dad beams and brags. Is it me or does Dad sound like he's trying to convince me that what he did was a good idea and it wasn't ridiculous at all? Seriously, who in their right mind would move a whole estate just so they won't

