Butler Leroy is reading a book when Cassandra peeping at the door . It is morning, and the rain has stopped before the dawn breaks out .
"Ahem . Good morning, Miss Young," he greeted the girl .
Cassie blushed . Humbly, she returned the greetings . "Good morning, sir . "
"Ahem . Just address my name, Miss . . . You can call me Leroy . "
"Oh . . . but, um . . . Mr . Leroy," still, she can't have a grasp of not calling anyone in a manner .
Everything felt too strange to her . She doesn't understand most of the things that had happened this passing day . Until now, she can't determine if everything is just a dream . But it is too detailed and a kind of long already . Is she was like asleep for days?
Cassie was on her thoughts when a woman approaches them pushing a serving cart . The woman greeted her, with this she's back to her senses and stared the woman . She resembles someone but uncertain who .
"Miss Young, this is Marie . She will be your companion while Master Williams is out of town, with Master Montfort and Miss Moore . "
"Oh . It does not need, Mr . Leroy . I don't want to trouble everyone," worried, she said .
"Master Williams instructed us, Miss . We bound to follow his orders no matter what . "
Leroy peered at Cassie . She keeps her silence like; she is contemplating things . Their masters have been already instructing them what to do if they have to face this kind of situation . Gladly, Marie was here to help them out .
"Okay, then . . . " she agreed in the end . Overwhelm, she bowed at them, showing gratitude . "Thank you very much . "
Leroy and Marie looked at each other and then smiled .
"Allow me to serve your breakfast, Miss . "
"Oh…" she steps back and widely opens the door, giving space for Marie to enter the room . Pushing the cart inside, she brought the food in the balcony and finely arrange on the table .
"Thank you very much, Miss Marie . I can do it for myself, actually . "
"Don't mention it, Miss Cassie . If there is anything you need, don't hesitate to call me . "
"Um . . . since I get lost in the mansion, I probably need someone to show me around, Miss Marie . "
Marie smiled warmly . She could spot the resemblance of Alesia at Cassandra . "No problem, Miss . . . "
"Cassie . . . just call me Cassie, Miss Marie . "
"Then, just call me Aunt Marie . "
"Can I? That sounds cool! Um, Aunt Marie . . . "
Marie smiles and hid the sadness on her eyes . Peering at Cassie's bright face, she's honored to be with the one from the life that does not exist any longer . Her smile is full of innocence behind those painful memories she buried deep at the back of her head . And so she wondered if Cassie would remember these events when she goes back to the life she thought that real .
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Outside, Leroy heaves a long sighed . He needs to check if his master has awoken now . The old butler strides toward the library .
"How are they?" Leroy asked Pete, who is cleaning an old painting .
Pete halted from what he is doing then glanced at their Masters and Doctor Derek attentively monitored the three people lying on the floor . He notifies the doctor when no one has awoken yet after five hours ago . After checking them up, the doctor called someone from the facility to bring medicines and everything he needed .
Checking up their condition every one-hour interval, he manually recorded their blood pressure and heartbeats even if Derek putting an advanced gadget . The facility also developed like a watch tool to put on the wrist . With this, the results were displayed on his PC Tab after connecting its system .
He also put an IV to Quinn, Levi, and Madison . . . then injected the needed nourishments to sustain their body's need might they will stay unconscious until tomorrow .
The system that Quinn requesting for him to build seems badly needed the soonest . Facing this kind of situation, they needed the advanced devices to monitor everyone's health during this time travels . They do not just stay unconscious for hours, but it has been 12 hours since they're gone . Unlike what Miss Marie reported in past events, it just took a few hours .
Derek writes it down on his notes . What information he has, they don't stay longer . He needs to study the procedure and thorough plans of what data he should put on the machine . This is something not only an ordinary medical system . He needs expert people about advanced technology .
"Doctor Williams, do you need more coffee?" Pete asked Derek .
"Ah . It looks like, I needed more . "
"How about you, butler Leroy?"
"That sounds great, butler Pete . Let me finish what—" Leroy paused . He thoughtfully stared at the painting and asked, "Aren't these eyes are familiar?"
Pete steps backward from the painting and halted at Leroy's side . "What do you mean by that, brother?"
Derek curiously listens to the butlers' conversation . Now, he's intrigued to check the painting and so, he strode toward them . "Who painted it, anyway?" he asked butler Pete .
"This painting was almost 300 years old, and Doctor Charles Montfort who paint it . According to the words that pass to each generation, the doctor painted it after meeting a very interesting girl with a beautiful name and a velvet night eye color . "
"Here . . . this initial with the letter C . . . still mysterious to everyone in the Montfort family . "
"So, who is this girl? Her face covered with some clothing, so we cannot see her whole face . "
"And I am certain she is not Marivella . "
"She has bright brown eyes," Derek retorted .
"Hmm . . . "
The three of them fell in deep thoughts when Marie came in . She wondered what the three men staring at . . . "Ahem . Is there a problem, gentlemen?" she asked curiously .
"Ah, Miss Marie . We're just curious if who is this woman . "
"Oh . Isn't she more look like Madison?"
"Miss Madison Moore?" Pete and Leroy said at once .
"I could determine the eyes resemble someone, yes . And the covered face, I could see Madison all over," she said then walked toward the sofa . She is about to sit when she notices something . "Why is the book staying lying here?"
Marie picked up the book . And flip the pages . "Are they reading this before they travel time, Butler Pete?" she asked .
"Yes, Miss Marie . The masters are reading the book, and we cannot dare to touch it after then . . . "
"I see . " Marie notices a little fold on one page . She read it then gasped .
"Something wrong, Miss Marie?" Derek asked the lady .
Marie quietly read that part then covered her mouth . "Something replaces some pages . "
"What? Is that even possible?"
"I don't know . This is the first time I encountered it . I never heard one before . "
"What the changes it says?"
Marie looked up and perceives at the curious and anxious faces of grown-up men in front of her . She then began narrating the part that has changes .
"Splattered the extract blackberries to these bitches clothes, I feel satisfied . But one is about to slap me . However, mama came back and defended me . " Marie continued .
"Mama has a beautiful hand . Gently, she tended the wound on my palm . I got them when I made a fake fall . " Marie paused and shook her head .
"This is not happening . It sounded Madison would do like one," she laughs nervously . Her silly niece!
"Are you saying now, Miss Marie that what happens to them is written in the book now?"
"Is this a sign of changes? Does the book change itself after Madison and others traveling back to that century?"
"Looks like, the book has become Madison's point of view," she announced .
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