The days after the festival passed quickly. The Spring Festival had ended, but Orrivale still seemed to carry a faint aftertaste of it.
Flowers that had been woven into necklaces and crowns now wilted on windowsills, while children laughed as they played beneath the forest's tall trees.
Meanwhile, in the Imperial Prince's Estate.
The Orrivale children actually came knocking on the Estate's gate.
It turned out Imelda's father was a knight in Wilson's Estate.
Needless to say, the most excited was Millicent.
The children were granted entrance after Aristia consented.
After that, the children came every other day since Aristia didn't object.
On the first day after the festival, the day the children visited, the Orrivale children insisted on showing her and Alaric the "secret" paths that wound between the trees in Orrivale.
