Hopeless Desire of a Witch

My brother’s eyes are not the same opaque color that made mine hazy. My brother has never seen me from the front, so, I can only peek at his side face, but I’m already satisfied with that.

I guess since I’m happy, I won’t call the fairy by name. In my dreams, I can call you without knowing it, but I hope my voice doesn’t reach you.

I, Eirene Orphe, the only princess in the Duke of Orphe family that has the highest rank in the Empire after His Majesty. I have a father, a brother, and I have a family.

The mansion I’m staying in is so big that it has more rooms that the hut the fairy told me about.

They said that the chef here is from the Imperial Palace who only serves high-quality dishes made from high-quality ingredients that are carefully selected and safe without allowing dirty animals to enter. And instead of rags, I can only wear pretty dresses that change everyday.

So what if I say I am not happy? If I say that a shabby hut is better than a big mansion, if I prefere a slice of bread soaked in soup over delicious food, if I prefer uncomplicated rags to a pretty dress…

The fairy is said to be a vicious person who tried to trick me into kidnapping. That’s why I shouldn’t follow the fairy, right?

Still, I can’t call the fairy by name, but I don’t want to forget it.

If I make an invisible box, tie a ribbon knot in a color that the fairy said it suits me, and put it in the drawer in the very corner of my heart. no one will know, and that it will be fine. Maybe…

But it’s okay to think about her once in a while, so that I could only want to see her once in a while. Irene…

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Irene, who had been sleeping coolly at the sound of the rain hitting the window, woke up. She slowly got up and sat down, her sleepy eyes staring blankly out of the window.

Gosh. Somehow, last night, the frogs were so excited with the rain that they sang so much in chorus. 

The fact that I forgot to put the laundry outside and went to sleep without picking them up crossed my mind. As a result, the outside scenery I looked upon at once, was once again drenched and damp with water.

But that’s enough, it was already too late for another laundry.