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As Sahashi entered the Ballroom, her heart leapt into her throat. She was going to sing and dance, but now she was getting nervous about it. It wasn't like there was anyone there to see or hear, but she hadn't sang since her father died, because she felt it wouldn't be fair, since he loved to sing and dance with Sae, Sahashi's mother. 'I can do this.' Sahashi thought to herself. She slowly walked to the center of the room and thought of a song. She took a deep breath and began to sing. She slowly began to dance as well, imagining a male partner to dance with. As she continued to dance, she felt better and better. She almost thought she was dancing with somebody. Somebody she loved with all her heart. This was a very rare sight to see, as she almost never sang or danced.

Yue was walking around the house lazily and heard some sounds in the ballroom, the place she hated with all her heart and soul because of how loud and annoying people can be inside with their dresses and fancy talk. She walked in, after her curiosity pushing her to do so and found her older sister dance as well as her younger sister play a piece as she laughed as loudly as she could, being surprised and not hiding or holding back anything since she wasn't the type to do so as she pointed at them saying, "I never thought----" only to be cut off by more and more laughter as she filled the room with echoes of her voice. Yue was never the type to ever care about anything and whenever she saw something strange, she would always either laugh or get away from it. These were one of those times where she would laugh, knowing that her older sister would either be angry or flustered after seeing her do so as well as her younger one surely become angry. She was bored after walking around the house with nothing to do but mess around with people.

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" Look into my eyes and tell me what you see. . . "

Sahashi finished her song and her dream ended as she saw Kotone, but her smile was still on her face as she heard Kotone singing. She then heard laughter and saw Yue. Her face turned back to looking expressionless as usual, whereas just a few moments ago, while singing and daydreaming, she was actually smiling. She then took on a guilty look when she saw her mother coming toward her. She had forgotten all about her classes while daydreaming. She looked down and heard her mother scold her. "I apologize mother, I was lost in the music. Dad liked to do that right? Sing the day away . . . I only wish I could have sang with him . . ." she said sadly, but with an expressionless face. She thought of all the times she wanted to do something with her dad, but had to do some kind of class instead, or all the times she got scolded for doing even the smallest things not having to do with running a city. All the times she got slapped for trying to sneak to her dad. She loved her mother, but she spent so much of her time being scolded for all the things her sisters and brother could do. It could get so irritating.

Yue kept laughing and then quieted down to chuckling when her mother or what she calls, " The Queen of Devils " appear with her gleaming silver glory. She had to hide even more laughter after looking at her yell at her elder sister. It wasn't because she enjoyed seeing her get scolded, but it was because of the sight of her mother, different after their father had died as Yue leaned against the wall to watch it all go down. She became annoyed at how the echoes made her mother's voice even louder and how the youngest was just starting to sing another one of those songs. What surprised her though, was how Sasashi brought up dad as an excuse to try and get out of trouble when all of them knew it would only make the " Queen of Devils " scold you more. She wondered if she should get in and try to save her older sister and . . maaayyybbeee. . get a favor out of her or just stand there and watch as the future Queen gets dragged off somewhere where there are more books than people in the city. Yue then decided to just wait it out and then see what happens.

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" Look into my eyes and tell me what you see. . . "

Sahashi prepared for the blow that would come soon, the slap on the face, the hit on the head, something, as she always did when her mother was angry. Sahashi's face was still utterly expressionless, as usual, she was hiding her emotions behind a mask. She never showed how she truly felt, always hiding it, the only time she ever had an expression was when it was anger towards Kotone or Yue, or a slight smirk when she was teasing someone, but those were the only emotions she let herself show, not happiness, not sorrow, not embarrassment, not fear, just blank eyes and a frown. She must take after her mother . . . Sahashi hated that fact. Sahashi continued to wait for the blow.