The days passed quickly, and with them, my boredom grew. Not that I wao pin, but being a baby had a lot of disadvantages. Actually, it was all a disadva sucks that my days were all eat, shit, and sleep. I needed something to do, and fast.

  The only good thing about these days was that the people around me were increasing. Every time I woke up, there was a new person in my care.

  Usually, it was a servant I didn't know, but other times it was one of my sisters or even my father. Strangely I never got to see my mother outside of the times when she came to feed me.

  One would think that since we were a noble family of some sort, they would have a nanny to do that job, but apparently in this world things were different. Or at least it seemed to be that way in this family.

  Maki was the only one who was always there. A new person and Maki. If I o be ged, Maki would do it. If I o sleep, Maki would do it. If I needed a bath, of course, Maki would do it.

  The only thing she didn't do was feed me, and I'm sure if she was able, she would do that too. It was iing that other than that, Maki was more mom than my real mom. Which made things much more fusing than I would have liked.

  To my surprise, one day when the boredom that was eating away at me was almost at its peak, Maki began to take me out of the room I had been in since I regained sciousness and took me on a tour of much of the house, or should I say mansion.

  It was huge. Let me repeat that. It was HUGE. A mansion was the only thing that fit the description. It took us a long time to get from one pce to the other because the rooms were so far apart from each other, and each was as big as a small apartment.

  Thanks to these walks around the mansion, I learned a little about the pces of i, for example, my sisters' rooms. Which, surprisingly to no one, were side by side.

  My parents' rooms. Yes, rooms. Plural. There was the joint room, where they usually slept together. Then, a separate room for my father and one for my mother.

  Maki's room; who seemed to have a room all to herself too, although it looked quite empty. I couldn't tell if it was because she's austere or because she doesn't usually use that room.

  Then the living room, the dining room, the kit, the offices, and finally, some of the maids' rooms. One of these was occupied by the emerald-eyed maid, who, by act, we found ging her clothes when we walked in. It was amusing and... enlightening.

  I noticed that the underwear is in keeping with how you would expect from the era we seem to be in. A pair of panties, which looked something like baggy pants; those they usually call "pumpkins shorts" and a somewhat tight, frilly t-shirt.

  Well, if I was ever going to e up with an idea for making money iure, I suppose this would be the ideal one. After all, I'd be profiting from it myself.

  One of the advantages of being a baby is that other people don't seem embarrassed to have me around when they are ging clothes or bathing, so I could see her body in all its glory.

  Small breasts, very smooth tanned skin, a cute little butt, and somewhat slehighs. In a couple more years she will surely have an amazing body.

  Aside from this moment of culture, I mao finally learn her name. Ameli. Yes, Ameli, like a certain demon in love with a blue-haired human *wink wink*.

  I also took a look at the extra parts, the wings and tail. They had great mobility, being able to stretd fp them as she wished. The wings, at full extension, were about 10 to 15 cm lohan her arms if she stretched them out to the sides. They were very simir to the wings of a bat and had the same basic shape. If I had to guess, I'd say they were 100% the same, anatomically speaking. That is, a pair of arms/hands that evolved to bee pseudo-wings. They grew from the top of the hip, and when fully open, they were as wide as your forearm. I would say approximately about 40cm.

  Her tail, oher hand, was a little lohan her legs. Fully stretched it was about 10cm longer, having also the advantage of being very flexible, able to bend in many different ways. It was born from where the coccyx bone should be. It was thin, perhaps as thin as a whip, from base to tip, and has an elongated heart shape. Pointed and firm.

  Maki chatted with her for a while as Ameli wiped her body with a damp cloth and ged into her maid's uniform.

  Why Maki could watch her while she was bathing? I have no idea. I'm as fused as you are. But, hey, I'm not going to pin. It was a delight to see that niaked body.

  In my defense, I'm not a pervert, I'm just admiring somethiiful. Mere stific curiosity about her anatomy... that's all...

  Anyway.

  After that, she joined us on our tour of the mansion. Thanks to both of them I memorized quite a bit of its structure.

  There were more bes from these tours. I mao learn one of the things I most wao know about the outside world.

  A couple of days after that first walk, we left the house and arrived at the garden, apparently our backyard. There were long rows of bushes, filled with flowers of different colors. Flowers that, if it wasn't already obvious, I had never seen before in my life.

  They had strange shapes, some looked like boats, which made you think that if they fell into the water, they would float away like a paper boat would. Others were shaped like a saxophone, an ied bell, with its widest part pointing towards the sky, ahat looked like the tail of a peacock, and the most impressive of all. A dragon's head. That flower was as big as I was, crimson red. On its top, it even had eye-like markings, and is petals, there were something like thorns that mimicked fangs. It gave the feeling that at any moment it would e to life and start spitting fire. It was the most impressive pnt I had ever seen in my entire life... both lives.

  We tinued walking through the beautiful garden, until we came to an area with a leafy tree of extensive branches, with leaves of a soft yellow to its feet, there was a kind of bench with a wooden structure with a roof and a small white stoable. It ace that was often used for tea in the garden.

  Maki sat down on the grass uhe tree pg me on her p. She wa me here so we could both rex and enjoy some sunshine and fresh air. Well, suns...it was 2 suns that I could see. It was breathtaking and at the same time, it wasn't. I was kind of used to fantasy stories adding something like that, but it was still impressive to see such a thing for the first time.

  It was curious that I hadn't noticed this when Sathalia showed me that image of the p. I guess a giant, scary cra space is more striking than a sor system with 2 stars.

  Every couple of days, Maki would take me out into the garden to sunbathe, py in the grass, admire and smell the flowers that adorhe pce, or just "have tea" on a terra the other side of the garden, where we had a beautiful goon; yes, a fug goon, with duck-like birds and several species of super strange fish.

  Thanks to these walks outside, I could see that the weather felt simir to that of the earth, I even got to see the ge of seasons. I saw how the leaves of the trees were ging their colors and falling to the ground, leaving a natural carpet of varied civing way to what seemed to be the beginning of autumn.

  The wi colder and colder and the people in the mansion, especially my family, looked much busier. There was a good ce that, from the number of days that seemed to have passed since I first awoke, my birth was around the beginning of summer. Although I had no way of cheg at the time.

  The days seemed longer, and I began to feel the o measure them a little more precisely. I tried to calcute how many days had passed since I saw the sun... suns, for the first time and cluded that about 3 weeks had passed.

  But that would be acc to my calcutions. I didn't know how days were measured in this world, so I was at a bit of a loss. That's not to mentioime that passed from my birth to the first time I went out into the garden.

  Luckily for me, and almost as if it was divine help, Papa Bear came into my room to py a couple of days ter. He sat on the couch as usual and started making those silly faces that he still thinks make me ugh. When he realized that I was not reag, he remembered his pocket watch, took it out, and showed it to me. It was there that I mao uand time, retively speaking.

  Okay, bad joke, sorry. Let's move on to the expnation.

  First, the hours, minutes, and seds seem to st the same. I only say "seems" because the sed hand was going at a simir speed to how I remember it. How do I know? You know, one sed equals saying "elephant". It's a simple but unbreakable spell. So, I went around ting each time the sed hand moved and, surprise, surprise, it was about 60 elephants to make a full revolution.

  That was the same, but there was a differehe numbers on the clock, or what I think are numbers, since I don't know what those symbols mean.

  Imagine a circle divided into 5 equal parts, each dividing line of that circle has bigger numbers; from the top, 15, 3, 6, 9, and 12. And the other 10 smaller numbers among the big ones. Implying 15 hours, for a total of 30 hours a day.

  On the same clock, 2 other smaller ones. Oh 6 symbols and the other with 12 symbols. From what I could uand, the oh 6 symbols was for the number of days per week, and the other one for the months. Taking all that into at, the calcution would be like this.

  The number of hours per year is still 8760 hours, at 30 hours per day, that's a total of 292 days per year. 12 months, each divided into 4 weeks of 6 days each, or, in other words, 24 days for each month. Don't ask me about the decimals that are left over, it's already too much that I have mahat calcution by myself and I don't io question how the schors of this world solved that problem... if they did.

  And don't bme me for doing all these calcutions... I'm a baby who 't do anything but being carried by my parents, sisters, Maki and some maids. I literally have nothing to do but think about all this... I'm bored, help me

  Thanks to this and what little I know about babies, I cluded that, by this time, I should be around 4 months old. Which put me in my first quarter of a year. If I woke up for the first time over a month ago, then I "gained" my sciousness around the 3 months. Well, I had to be grateful that I didn't get to experience my birth, but why wake up at 3 months? Why not a month, or 2, or even 6? I had so many questions to answer. ime I talk to Sathalia I should ask her.

  Apart from all this, there was mood news. I finally started to uand the nguage. And just to be clear, I seriously felt stupid realizing how easy it was to uand. Well, not as easy, but enough to quickly grasp the meaning of some words.

  Oddly enough, the nguage has the same word order as Spanish/English, except for a few sentehat are weird. Super easy to uand once you get the hang of it. Things like "Hello, how are you?" had the normal order, but others like, "La ida estará preparada en breve" (The food will be ready shortly) were ordered like this: "En breve ida preparada estará." (Food ready soon will be) It was like talking to Yoda. fusing at times and even irritating.

  Still, I started to memorize a good number of words and phrases from the moment I noticed that trick, which was about a week after we started the mansion walks. When I had the opportunity to listen to different people speaking it and could pare pronunciations it was easier for me to uand what they were saying.

  I was already pretty good at uanding new nguages, although not as good as I would have liked. I struggled quite a bit this past month to make sense of some phrases, but I am satisfied with what I aplished. After all, it was all I could d the day. Listen aally practice everything I learned.

  Thanks to that I was filled with an enormous amount of informatiarding many things, and I was able to ahe vast majority of questions I had.

  And what I learned; was why I was kept "hidden" in that room in the first pce.

  To begin with, it was due to several factors, although I will only mention the most important ones.

  The first was due to my mother's health. Acc to what I heard from some adults; she did not have the strength to carry the pregnancy. My mother's health weakened over the years, and shortly after getting pregnant with me, she was found to have a type of heart disease. Carrying so much stress could have made her dition worse, but she decided to take the risk and brio the world. Luckily, she was given a lot of care and didn't gh the worst of it, although she ended up much weaker than before.

  When they seo our home after determining that she was stable enough, they put her in a special room, where there were several, uhh… something that heals. I didn’t get that word at the time.

  Anyways, this pce had been prepared beforehand, building a wall in the middle to separate her so that she would have some privacy, but that it would be easy for her to e to me and be able to feed me.

  All this was done because she wao have a pce where she could rex ah her family without being in, as I uood her to say, that horrible prison in Alika's temple. Which would be something like the hospital of this world.

  The sed big reason was that my birth occurred during a plicated time. I didn't fully uand the words they used, but every few decades there were days when the heat was extremely intehis room had its windows removed to prevent it from causing problems for us. And it seemed to have some kind of system that regutes the temperature... something like a magic air ditioner. I don't know anything other than that. It was more intriguing how the others could survive such extreme weather, but I figured I would know once I grew up.

  Thanks to my improved nguage skills, I uand what my family says much easier, especially listening to my mother and sisters. Zenya was, surprisingly, the MVP. She would e in every day to py with me, talking for hours, telling me a myriad of things, many of which were what she learned from her tutor or folk tales she had learned.

  Many times, Maki had to correct her in the middle of her stories because Zenya mispronounced a word ot some part of the story wrong. For this, Zenya won the medal for the best older sister from me. Seriously, she was a real wohanks to everything she told me, and of course to Maki's help, I was able to learn more about our family. The Baelian house.

  To begin with, I will speak first in a general way.

  House Baelian is one of the 4 great houses of the Roitn Empire. It is a ducal house, headed by the main branch of the family, the Urden Baelian. Below them, there are 3 sedary brahe Razoro, the Kirdo, and the Galmari. These sedary branches are in charge of administering importaories of the Baelian family, while the main branch remains in the house of the capital attending to political affairs.

  Apart from these sedary branches, we also have several subordinate nobles, ranging from several hundred knights, which are of non-hereditary title, houses of lords, with jobs reted to business administration or medium important positions, and a few dozen houses of Barons and Vists.

  There are also alliances with houses of ts, merts, and families from other kingdoms and empires. I don't go any further, because I still didn't mao uand most of it, sihere were many difficult words that I didn't uand.

  Much of that information rovided directly by Maki, who seemed well-versed, and... strangely enthusiastic about telling it. Both Zenya and I were somewhat stunned when Maki started talking about the family situation. Although it was a good way to put us both to sleep in the evenings.

  This brings me to the important point, my family's situation.

  We are that main branch. The Urden Baelian. Papa Bear, my father, Duke Halfred Kant Urden Baelian, is the current patriarch of the family. His wife and my mother, the Duchess Irna Ga Urden Baelian. The demon I met before Papa Bear arrived, is my older brother, Losward Bhias Urden Baelian. My first older sister, Sarka Lara Urden Baelian. My sed oldest sister, Zenya Dria Urden Baelian, and the you of the family, Orinthya Nita Urden Baelian, that is me.

  That was the totality of my immediate family. But! There was someone who took me by plete surprise. Fiana Baelian de Gari. I didn't uand at all, because her name had our family name, but still, it was different. I only uood that "Maki" is something like a title, though I don't know the meaning. And sihe only sounds I could make were babbling and Zenya was not ied in asking, I could not delve further into that topid was left without a proper expnation of the matter.

  But there is mood news. Well, it's both good and bad. The good part is that my mother, Irna, seems to be gettier, slowly regainirength. By early autumn, she was able to join us on our walks in the garden, sometimes it was even just her and me. Moments that I took full advantage of to bond with her. It almost always ended up with me being riddled by her stant kisses and tickles... not that they bothered me, I was getting used to her dispys of affe. The bad news was that a few days ter, she started showing up less and less. She ged from spending a good part of the day with me to barely showing up to breastfeed me and leaving almost immediately.

  …

  …

  Look, I know she's probably busy with what I imagine is her job and all that, now that she’s gettier, but I started to enjoy my time with her, and these st days without her started to feel kind of lonely. I wao spend as much time together as I could. I know I shouldn't be so selfish, but fuck it, I'm a baby, I have to be selfish and I have no iions of ging that. So, my solution was the most appropriate and logical one... cry my eyes out for my mommy.

  And it worked... for a couple of days. At least she would stay a little longer after feeding me, and in the evenings, she would stay with me until I fell asleep.

  There was nothing I could do about it, so I had no choice but to accept it and keep quiet. Upset and lonely. At least now I had more free time, and I was able to focus on other important things. On myself. And by that, I mean, both my new body and appearand the mental ges I've been experieng over time.

  FivesZeta