The maids waiting nearby exchanged puzzled glances.
The bolder one among them stepped forward and asked, "Miss, is something wrong?"
Gisela snapped out of her daze and asked, "What year of the era is it now?"
"It's the fourteenth year of Ravenna, Miss."
The fourteenth year?!
Her face dropped instantly. For her, only a split second had passed since she died last time and the system sent her back here, but four full years had passed in the mortal plane.
Four years... Just thinking about it left a heavy pit in her stomach.
She waved all the maids out the door, then sat alone in the leather chair next to the carved wooden desk by the window.
A tall peach tree grew right in the center of the courtyard outside. Its branches sat level with her desk, and one thin twig even poked through t
