Half-Breed by Hickory Mack

Author:Hickory Mack [Mack, Hickory]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-01-23T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

Chiori clung to Lord Makkai’s side, grasping his hand. They stood in the middle of her renovated suites, he’d had the entire layout of the rooms surrounding the inner gardens changed for her. Two of the four hallways connecting to the room sets were closed off, and the rooms between hers and Makkai’s rooms had been changed to help with her education.

One room had been transformed into an art studio, stocked with supplies for everything from pottery to calligraphy. Another room had a pair of desks facing each other with rows of bookshelves, Makkai had told her she’d learn Language arts there.

“I suspect you will be spending minimal time in this room.” Makkai said, showing her a room laid with thick tatami mats. It had a stand with wooden swords and padded gear inside. And several types of shields and fighting staffs lined the back wall. There was a much smaller bookshelf in this room, and when she bent to inspect them, they were all on the subject of different types of fighting styles.

The room for magic class was still empty of everything save a single low table in the middle. Chiori wondered what her red-headed teacher would fill the space with.

To keep anyone from walking into her outer hallways, it was arranged to have a barrier placed between the classrooms and Chiori’s rooms. Makkai had her place her hand to the barrier so it would recognize her. From then on she was the only one able to walk through the barrier, the instructors and any staff that needed to use the classrooms would use the hallway on Lord Makkai’s side of the barrier.

Her personal rooms had only three walls, opening entirely to the gardens, the sliding glass doors to the garden could still be opened and closed as needed if the weather turned sour and she needed to keep rain or snow out.

“To help ease your fears of being contained.” Lord Makkai said. The doors around the gardens were also warded and could only be accessed by the two of them. Not even her teachers could enter the gardens on their own. Anyone could be invited, but they had to be re-invited every time they left.

“It’s to give you privacy in your rooms. In this way, no one can come upon you through the gardens. Your staff will come to you through another set of hallways behind your back wall.”

A full washroom with toilet, sink, cabinet and shower were added as one of her personal rooms, the only one of her rooms with four walls. Her bedroom had been transformed.

Tatami mats and beautiful rugs had been laid, and an intricately carved desk equipped with a computer, writing utensils and paper had been brought in. The walls remained the same white rice paper, trimmed with deep brown wood, but a large canvass now hung one one wall, a simple fox made of blue fire, outlined with black, sitting with its tail covering its front feet, looking straight at her. Makkai had frowned at it at first, he hadn’t chosen it, but Chiori liked it, so he let it go.

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