Scroll knocked on the door, and soon there was a door answer, "Please come in."
She pushed the door and entered. Anna was sitting at the table by the window, flipping through thick books. Sunlight poured in from the window, pulling the woman's figure long. Her soft cheeks and neck were dazzlingly white in the light, and the long flaxen hair that covered her shoulders was almost dyed pale gold.
After nearly a week of getting along, Shu Scroll has basically figured out the other person's temperament, such as being outspoken, never beating around the bush, being calm and quiet, and being particularly eager to learn... In short, it is rare for a child born in a commoner to be as pure and peaceful as Anna. .
"You're not going to play that... card game?" Scroll pulled up a stool and sat beside Anna. In the past two days, the sisters would rush back to the castle as soon as they finished their practice, crowded into Soraya's room to play the so-called Gwent cards, and competed with each other for the pieces of paper collected by each other. Even Nana Pine, who came to play with Anna every day, had a rare reduction in the number of appearances after learning how to fight. Unlike a few days ago, she could always see the little girl with magical healing powers in the room.
"I want to read more books," Anna flipped to the next page, "I don't have the ability as you do, I just need to spend more time on it."
She reads almost everything, from historical biographies to long poems, including various folk stories she heard from the streets and alleys, as long as they are compiled into books, she can read them with relish.
Scroll touched her head lovingly, "Don't worry, I will tell you everything I remember."
This is the child who changed the lives of the survivors of the Society, Scroll thought. If it weren't for her, Nightingale would not have gone to Border Town halfway, nor would she have known the Fourth Prince of Greycastle, and nothing would happen next. In a sense, she is the savior of all witches.
This is also the reason why he had a good impression of Anna from the beginning, and the latter quickly accepted him after seeing the Book of Magic, and expressed great envy, which made the book feel a little ridiculous. In the mutual aid society, no sister has ever envied her ability. On the other hand, Anna's magical capacity was the largest among the witches Nightingale had ever seen, and her green flames, which could send and receive freely, were also extremely attacking.
"Your hair is a little long," Scroll lifted Anna's bangs, which were about to cover her eyes, "Has no one cut your hair for you?"
She shook her head, "I twisted it all myself."
Scroll suddenly became interested, "The twisted hair is so ugly, let me trim it for you."
"You still do this?"
"I cut most of the sisters' hair during the mutual aid society," Scroll chuckled. "Wait a minute, I'll get the tools."
She quickly walked back with a cloth bag. Spread out the white cloth wrapped in layers, with a pair of bronze scissors inside. The scissors are v-shaped, with tiny scratches on the handles at both ends, giving off a drenched sheen and apparently being used frequently. Before Shu Scroll joined the Mutual Aid Association, he used these scissors to cut people's hair in a pub in Haifeng County. In addition to buying bread, the copper eagles saved were given to an old captain with a broken leg, and the captain taught her to read and write until she died of old age.
Scroll skillfully unfolded the white cloth, tied it around Anna's neck, and began to trim her overly long hair.
"I... have some questions to ask you."
"What?" The scroll fingers fluttered, and the scissors kept separating and closing in her palm, making a crisp clicking sound. The flaxen hair slid across his fingertips in tufts and fell to the ground.
"In the book you showed me yesterday, many of the stories recorded in it have almost the same ending. Will the prince definitely marry the princess?"
Her hand paused for a while, the storybook was not a book in the true sense, but a collection of folk stories she had listened to sailors sing in Haifeng County for more than ten years. It's just that the book has deliberately screened the content. Stories without a happy ending are not needed. The prince is not with the princess. In the end, they made up a book and transformed it for Anna.
She knew that the other party would definitely ask such a question after reading it, but when she really wanted to answer, she couldn't bear it.
"Most of the time, of course, some princes will marry the daughters of grand dukes or dukes. For example, King Wimbledon III of Greycastle, his wife is the daughter of Duke Silver Light."
After speaking, the scroll sighed in his heart. Wendy mentioned Nightingale's thoughts to her. Compared with the mature and calm Shadow Killer, she was more worried about Anna, who was getting closer to His Royal Highness. Anyone can see how important this woman is to His Highness. When Anna was present, Roland's eyes always fell on her more. Her busy work in a day was several times that of the other sisters. After Nightingale and Wendy's room was changed to two people living together, His Royal Highness only did not adjust Anna's room, and explained that Ruona Nava could sleep with Anna during the night in the castle. A bed - he didn't even realize he was the owner of the place, and he didn't need to explain.
The same goes for Anna, who doesn't talk much with other witches and is a quiet listener most of the time. Only when he is by Roland's side will he become active. If there is anything that can make her look away from the book, the book bet it must be His Royal Highness.
It is a pity that Roland is the fourth prince of the Kingdom of Greycastle, the king who will be fully supported by the witches in the future, while Anna is a witch.
It was impossible for the scroll to remind His Royal Highness, so he had to come up with this method to attack Anna. She didn't want the two to have a estrangement, and she didn't want to see a tragedy with no result.
"Why?" Anna shook her head, as if trying to get the broken hair out of her neck, "What if the prince doesn't like the princess or noble lady?"
"Uh..." Scroll didn't expect her to ask this, "then he has to marry too. Because the prince is likely to become the king, the king's marriage is not his business alone," she tried to recall the relevant knowledge recorded in the book , "In order to stabilize the great nobles far away on the border of the kingdom, in order to appease the neighboring countries that are just about to move, and even in order to make a good deal. But the most important thing is that the king must have heirs."
Anna didn't ask any further, which made the scroll a little relieved. This kind of thing can only be persuaded slowly, she believes that one day the other party will understand. After trimming her hair, Scroll smiled and scratched the ends of Anna's hair, "Yes, I'm in a lot of energy."
"Thank you," Anna bowed her head.
"Then, today's book..." Scroll thought for a while and decided to summon a book on the evolution of the Wolfheart royal family to strengthen the impression instilled today, "Let's choose a family biography."
When she was about to leave, Anna suddenly said, holding the book of illusion, "I don't think Roland is the prince in the story." Her voice was very certain, and it was not like she was trying to convince herself, "He will only do what he wants to do. It has nothing to do with anything else."
"..." Scroll was stunned, "Why?"
"If he was that kind of prince, he wouldn't have saved me."