Stuck On Here
Chapter 6: the discussion

Miss Katherine was sitting in the living room with a man. Her pale blue dress dangled covering her ankles. The ribbon-shaped waistband is played and allowed to dangle regardless of its original shape.

While the man in front of him was just silent not speaking at all, the silence created made the clanging sound of the clockwork clink into the music of the filler.

Miss's Breath. Katherine sounded regular despite her misgivings about this pale-faced, paper-pale man before her. The man's face looked flat with no expression. His pale face like someone who had lived in a cave for many years, not exposed to the glare of the sun made the first person to see him at a glance think he was a ghost.

Miss. Katherine silently did not dare to stare at the face of the person in front of her, the one who invited her into the perverted circle that she had not even realized until now.

"Lusa dusk, the full moon is coming, a gathering of members and chiefs," Mr. Rey makes a short voice, explaining her point with a choice of words that sound strange and less easily understood by new people, in contrast to Miss. Katherine was getting used to it.

"Your promise, Miss remember, rewards" Mr. Rey then passed by with a million dark auras around her.

Miss's Face. Katherine pale to hear the word reward. He stood up and went to his own room.

***

"What's Luke?" Andreas asked with lips touching the end of the glass filled with whisky, "You want to discuss your engagement to Miss Lafrence?" Andreas asked in a mocking tone.

"Speaking carelessly!" Lady Valerie is upset. Which was greeted by Andreas. While Kendrick was busy eating biscuits on the tray.

"You keep making fun of me and Lucas, so find a partner there! You're not doing it?" Reply Valerie with a thick tone of ridicule and a triumphant witty smile.

Andreas and Kendrick frowned slightly, looking at Valerie with a look of wonder, making Valerie also confused as to what was wrong with her.

"Why see me like that?"

Andreas commented a smile,'"Your language doesn't sound like a Young Miss Lafrence,"

"Why really? It's better, if the formal talk keeps me off guard," Again defending myself.

Kendrick was silent because he never said much. The pain in his jaw when he was moved made him try to reduce speech except for important things like now, if not important for what Lucas de Felman invited his two best friends and Young Miss Lafrence to gather, he said, Kendrick Walter, Andreas Willson, and Valerie Lafrence.

"What, Lord Louis, don't know?" Kendrick asked, opening his voice.

Lucas stared for a moment at his best friend, "Uncle Louis, you know. What can be hidden from him? Dust in the air?" Lucas asked sarcastically, "She let me do as I please, but of course it has to be calculated, you know my Uncle is a very disciplined person. He said it's not a big deal, so let it go,"

Kendrick mustache understood, while Andreas poured whisky again into his glass. Sip it full of delicious taste, opium.

Valerie stared strangely at Andreas who seemed to be enjoying Whisky in her glass. He himself hooked the ears of the tea cup and took a slow sip.

"So?" Kendrick reopens the voice.

"We're gonna be detectives" Lucas said enthusiastically.

Andreas clucked, "I guessed it, this young Felman is better suited to be a whisperer,"

Lucas only chuckled amusedly at Andreas' slightly sarcastic comments, but he was used to it. He switched the conversation.

"Wait," Valerie interjected, "Better, you find out first, about Floren's surname, the Katana surname," proposed Valerie who was greeted with a nod by Andreas.

"It's true Miss Lafrence said, if we don't know who Miss is yet. Katherine what do we want? He could be a victim, right?" Andreas said as he circled the glass around the table and stopped in front of Kendrick who was staring dislikely.

"Have Ken's men investigate, easy"

Andreas just kept silent not responding. He put his whisky glass on the table turning it in place, thinking.

"The color of the violet can avoid someone from danger, that's the old-fashioned understanding I learned from the books in Lourch's book hall. Not the Miss. Katherine used to wear something shade-colored?" Kendrick came to the conclusion.

"And Floren, not like to carry or wear something shade, yesterday I saw him throw a handkerchief in the trash," Valerie said, Pause for a moment to take a breath, "So——"

"So Miss Katana disagrees with Miss. Katherine," Cut Andreas short.

Lucas nodded in understanding, "So Miss Katana, doesn't agree with Miss. Katherine's. Does that mean he doesn't understand anything?"

"Maybe he knows something, but he's hiding something," Andreas said again, He took a bottle of whisky and poured again, "There's whisky again?"

"There," Lucas said, calling a maid there, telling him to take two bottles of wishky.

"That means?" Lucas asked again.

"That is, we just wait for the Whisky to come and continue with the one," replied Andreas lightly, who was reprimanded annoyed by Lucas.

***

Louis sat in his great chair listening to the report brought by Jake. His hand clasped against his chin, his silver eyes still watching Jake intensely. Sometimes his head nodded in understanding.

"Just let him do what he wants, it's not about the whole of Lourch, it's just the little rioters." Tukas Louis at the end of Hans' report.

Jake nodded respectfully and went out to raise Louis, who was still loyal to the semicircular table of red-painted oak.

"Katherine, what does she want?" Louis Mumbled.

Louis stood up from his seat, stepping towards the large window covered in five cm thick glass, staring lazily out. Felman's estate is wide out there.

"What does Luke know?" Louis took a heavy breath.

***

"You want to come with me, Miss Lafrence?" bargain Andreas as they reached the front court of Felman's mansion.

Valerie nodded her head in agreement, then stepped first towards the carriage with the sword logo up ahead. Andreas, Kendrick, and Lucas spoke for a while.

"Valerie's earrings reached her home" Lucas reminded Andreas.

Andreas who heard her grinned amusedly, "You're afraid Miss Lafrence is hurt? Or what? You're in love with her, aren't you? Just marry her," Andreas sneered with a loud laugh.

Lucas hit Andreas' shoulder playfully.

"Here you go, I go home first, Livya is in my house now," Kendrick interrupted as she passed from her place, riding on a light brown-studded white horse in her mane.

"Go away" Lucas later said.

"Alright, fine," Andreas immediately stepped onto the carriage letting the sais take the train south to drive Valerie back to her home.