Chapter 33 - Past - Alana
The rain was falling hard that night, but it wasn't what got the young earl's attention then.
The noise of his daughter's crying was what worried him as the little girl should be asleep at that time.
"What's the matter, mie ma'sá?" And entering the room then, he soon asked, calling her by the nickname that meant my little child in their language.
... Mie col'bon was how Dilara's mother always called, and despite her father also used that term fondly, the earl's favorite one was ma'sá, the same word that his own parents used with him in his childhood...
"M-m-my fl-flow-flower!" Still crying, she spoke with difficulty to him, showing the small vase that no longer had a flower in it. "I-I wa-was not able to-to help it!"
Even if she couldn't yet express herself
