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Audemars Macleod? This Guy Keep Popping Everywhere!!!

Monday, 28th March 1453

Before I entered the Matron's office, I knocked on the door first and waited for a response. When I looked at HRH JR and HRH Amy, they looked quizzically at me and asked, "Are you waiting for someone to open the door for you? Whose room is this?"

"Eh…?!?! This is the Matron's office and I forgot that she had turned into a pile of white bones already…!!! How foolish of me to knock on the door first as if she would come alive and greet me at the door and receive her loot for the day and kick me out once again…!!!"

Both HRH JR and HRH Amy both kicked the door open and barged in and looked around for any trace of life. Their actions shocked me since I never knew they would do something like that and even without a single word or a hint of suggestion at all…!

"Just as we suspected, there was no one around here who would harm you, Big Sister Kristobel…! Come now, show us the voice pipe and we can summon all the poor children and we all can have our meals now. Hurry up, Big Sis…Hurry up, Big Sis…Hurry Up, Big Sis… Hurry Up, Big Sis…"

I was wondering whether to laugh or to cry since they were either pestering or pleading for me to call upon the children to assemble. I found the voice pipe and removed the cap and held a whistle just above the mouthpiece and blew the whistle as hard as possible.

*W W W H H H E E E E E E E E E E T T T T T T*

The whistle was blown long and hard and then I replaced back the cap and gestured the twins to follow me towards the assembly hall. "The children would be here any time now. It would be slightly slower for those children that had been forcefully incapacitated though." I motioned for the twins to follow me but they were affixed there and not moving as though they were struck by some kind of magic…

"Big Sis, how many such rooms are there here in this Orphanage?" HRH JR asked since he was piqued with the size of the room for the Matron. Not only that, but he also noticed certain things that are worth a lot of coins too and would be good to be auctioned off and the money used for the children expenditure et cetera.

"Well, this one belongs to the Matron, and there are another two more shared rooms for the goonies. There are three rooms altogether. Why do you ask, His Royal Highness?"

"Nothing much, I was thinking where would our Resident-In-Charge be sleeping tonight onwards. Come, please show us the other two rooms, please. We would like to see if the other two rooms would fit for them or not." HRH JR highlighted to me and I knew thought that the prince of the age of 12 or 13 would be thinking of other's welfare. Where in the world would you find such noble people thinking of others before? All they would think is for their own benefits only.

After I showed both of them the rooms which the goonies used to occupy, they had decided that the rooms would be good for the Mann and Greenfields family while the Matron would be great for the Levi. When we reached the assembly hall, all the children had already assembled as the front few lines were being occupied by the incapacitated ones. I being the eldest, stood with them right at the front as we faced His and Her Majesty which was joined by His and Her Royal Highness. The Resident-In-Charge also joined in behind His and Her Majesty along with Sister Isabela and Sister Windtalker. I saw Clayton which kept on making eye contact with me and was non-stop smiling at me. The rest of the helpers all stood behind Clayton along with a few soldiers at arms.

"Daddy, you can begin the debrief right now." HRH JR said as he took out a small shiny object with a piece of shiny chain from within his tunic and looked at it and then inserted it back into his tunic where there's a small slit where the object slid in snugly.

"Hello, children. My name is Audemars Macleod and this here is my family, my wife and my twin boy and girl. I believe you may hear that others are calling me His Majesty here and there, so to make simple, you may call me as Chief. That's right, you may call me Chief so its easier to pronounce for all of you."

"From today onwards, the Macleods from Gracehaven City had already taken over this Orphanage and would be solely taking care of the welfare for all the children here. Besides, we would be rounding up a few more other children off the streets and house them over here as we all believe that children are vulnerable and should be our responsibility to be taking care of all of you."

"I believed that most of you had lost your parents and our guardians and there is one or two of you that are of blue blood peerage, kidn*pped, held for ransom and then placed here under the custody of the Matron and her evil men."

"Whatever it is, we are all equals, there is no higher being or someone who sovereigns above all. Only the Almighty stands between us and above us all… Right now I can see that everyone has the yellow round sticker that His and Her Royal Highness had pasted on you, so leave it as it is."

"If it gets wet and unable to stick anymore, His and Her Royal Highness here would be glad to replace one for you. It shows your name so its easier for us to identify you. Besides, calling His or Her Royal Highness is such a mouthful so just call our boy here as Prince and our girl as Princess. They are both twins and their birthday is just a month away, am I right, children?"

"Which means, could we have our birthday party here so we can share the joys with the children here? They might not even celebrate a single birthday in their lives and I feel that it would be good to celebrate with them, don't you think so Chief Daddy?" HRH JR pointed out and I saw that the Chief laughed when he was called 'Chief Daddy'.

"That's a good idea, son. Yes, we will celebrate both of your birthdays here next month. There's no problem and we could get Innes, the Chief of Drapery to be here to measure the clothes for the children. At least the children would have a standard uniform to wear here in this Orphanage. Old Jack, did you bring the spare pieces of clothing from the Thrift Superstore here?" I saw the Chief turned his head and asked Grandpa Jack about the pieces of clothing and I felt that it was truly blessed that this Orphanage had been taken over by a group of people with a HUGE HEART.

"Yes, Your Majesty Chief….Hahaha. it sounds cute if I mixed everything all up. It is here in the main hall and we have not distributed to the children yet since we were busy in the kitchen to set up the first meal of the day for us. Even if we had breakfast earlier but I think the children here would be introduced to the 5 meals a day from today onwards."

"FIVE MEALS A DAY…?!?!?! WE WOULD BE LUCKY IF WE HAVE A SINGLE MEAL PER DAY…EVEN HALF PORTION WOULD BE BETTER THAN NOTHING…!!!" I screamed in my head when I heard Grandpa Jack mentioning 5 meals a day? Is there such thing as 5 meals a day…?!?!? I have not seen anyone eat so much in their lives before and I think everyone would have a difficult time to exit from the dining room doorway if we have 5 meals a day every single day…!!!

"Alright, Old Jack. We would distribute the pieces of clothing for them to change and burn all those all clothes and ensure they have at least additional 2 pairs of clothes each. What else ah…Hmm, it been so long since I address citizens in this manner and these citizens were all small sized. Hahaha…! Alright, those in the front rows that had their arms or legs disabled, you will be attended to by our Director from the Ministry of Health here. You would be assigned to your beds according to gender and then you would undergo treatment to fix your legs and arms, alright? Don't be afraid, it would be like ants crawling all over you."

I looked behind and saw the children were laughing nervously since they knew for sure that their legs and arms that had been bashed and broken, would never regain its full functionality and strength anymore.

*C L A P*

*C L A P  C L A P*

"Your Majesty, you had said your piece and I would say mine now. EVERYONE TO THE DINING HALL NOW…"

"CH A R R R G G G G E E E …!!!" Her Majesty raised her fist as she hollered out to everyone as the children and I cheered along and we all waited and followed the Residents-In-Charge as they led us all into our dining hall which now looked rather unfamiliar to everyone…!!!