"Oh, did you ladies hear?" a lady spoke up, one that many would have ignored if it weren't for the reason she was a member of the Rose Club - just mentioning the fact that you were a 'follower' of Lady Roseline was enough to have the other ladies fawn over a person.

"Prince Alaric visited Lady Roseline just hours after she was found!" the others squealed as she continued, "This just shows how much he cares about her, do you not think so? He does care about her!"

"But what about that commoner girl? Didn't someone say they saw His Highness and her conversing with each other?"

"Surely, that girl must be put in place. We'll have to report back to Lady Roseline once she's allowed to attend school as usual."

The group of noble ladies continued to speak about Lady Roseline and Prince Alaric... except for one. Her eyes looked around the table, her fan covering the bottom of her face from prying eyes.

"Again with this nonsense," she thinks to herself and nearly rolls her eyes out of boredom. It seemed as if all the noble ladies' only interest at the current moment was about Lady Roseline ever since the incident and to be honest, she couldn't seem to understand what was so fascinating about the matter. The girl almost died yet everyone was more interested in the Crown Prince's friendship with this other girl that came from a commoner's household.

"Have any of you even visited Lady Roseline?"

Finally, she speaks up and the noisy table quiets down - it was rare for the Lady Anastasia to speak up which always made her words have an even bigger impact to those who hear it.

"Unacceptable," she closes her fan, and only then do the other girls see the slight smile that she had hidden. "Why - I think Lady Roseline must be in such a dire state to not be able to attend school for quite some time, do you not think so?"

She leans forward into her seat, "I was told the Church even had to send in one of their the more powerful users since she wasn't responding to the usuals. My my, she must have been in such a close brush with death... Surely, all of you are worried over her too, yes?"

The other ladies looked at each other, none of them having the guts to look at Lady Anastasia in the eyes. Being engaged to the second prince gave her just as much influence as Lady Roseline so if they said anything wrong, the Gautier Household would surely be after their heads.

Anastasia snapped her fan open, fanning herself and