#fenixtj

Dil blushes "I don't know if it's knightly but.. I didn't want to see anything so beautiful fade."

"They have been harmed." Sadly.

"I didn't know."

"Chimera are often short lived depending on where they go..and butterfly Chimera in winter? Weak anyway" Diego says

Ash coughs "Permission to add Butterly collecting and relocation to my patrols?"

"No, Ash. Permission to start butterfly cultivation. And...." with a glance at Diego ".... monarchs have priority."

"Excuse me." She stands.

And they bow

just as if she were a countess or somethi.. oh yeah

Well, Diego doesn't bow. Sometimes that's wonderful

Jessica steps 'off stage' as it were.

"And now we plot our coup" Diego says

"Never" Dil says

"Stop riling her, Diego." Ash says

Jessica moves heavily to her rooms.

No one intrudes on her path.

And her room is ..empty. Asi t should be