Extraits

An ordinary date:Time in the sun

""A young lady of the House of Vessalius pays a charity visit to an orphanage," hmm... ?"

From a bench in the shade of the trees in a corner of the yard, Vincent turned cold eyes on Ada.

Ada was sitting on a floral-patterned sheet that the children had brought and spread at the base of the elm in the center of the yard, holding an open picture book. The children had formed a circle around her. She was reading aloud, but her voice didn't reach Vincent.

However, he could tell that she was reading in a gentle voice, and that the children were listen eargerly.

"...I suppose Gil and I were about that age when we were abandonned." Vincent thought as he gazed at the children.

Still, even if they had no parents, no doubt the children at this facility had warm beds to shelter them from the rain and dew, and were given enough food to keep them from being hungry.

How fortunate they were.

He reflected on his own past. It hadn't been at all unusual for him to sleep outside, freezing and exposed to the elements, ans he'd sometimes been so hungry he'd eaten food that was all but rotten, pratically garbage. With his red eye, as a "child of ill omen," he'd been driven away from care facilities like this one.

If a facility had taken them in back then, what would have happened ?