Chapter One: First EncounterHe has not been in the countryside for long. In fact, he has only been there for a few days when he regrets agreeing to come in the first place. It begins like this. He has been keeping his head down, talking to people only when absolutely necessary. It is his third time in the library, but it is the first time that he has company. It is not a part of the library for common folk and definitely not for someone as pretty and young as the little nymph down the row. Jasper is not native to the countryside. Alas, it is a punishment for him to be here. He had angered someone high in the totem pole and his father thought it safer to have him hidden until things die down a little. It is unfortunate that the man he had given the verbal lashing to had been the son of a

