"You are unusually quite today..." Arashi remarked as I was practicing the verse the empress was teaching me.
"What happened?" He asked.
It was already night and the whole time, I had practiced every letters that I was supposed to learn. Even the instrument. I went to Rei and asked her to help me. Even when I was bad at it, I kept trying it.
I knew I didn't need it but that didn't mean, I didn't have to learn it. I went to the head maid to teach me the tea ceremony etiquette. Arashi had taught me but I wanted to perfect it.
I said, "I want to learn these..."
I had finished writing the letters and I dropped my ink pen. Then I turned around and hung the paper before Arashi. "How's it?"
He examined it for a few seconds and nodded. "Well, it has certainly improved a lot."
I smiled but
