A day passed when I received flame mail from the Ascot twins.

'Dearest Snow, how have you been? We heard of the incedent and wanted to know how you were.

And why the Slade border is closed...

-sincerely Reinel & Renèe Ascot'

"The twins are trying to get through the border?" I asked, looking at my father who received flame mail as well.

"So are Lennon and his son it seems," Father furrowed his brows.

"The incedent was only yesterday, how could they be at the border so quickly?" I tilted my head, confused.

"Well, how ever they got there, they're not coming through, a high profile murderer escaped recently, causing the border to close. No one gets in or out of Slade," Father explained.

But I knew what was going on, Harry's event was close. A few years ago, Harry's mother, a concubine gave birth to Harry, but she was shocked to see the strange markings in his eyes and back and immediately tried to order her maid to kill him.

She didn't want to be caught giving birth to a warrior.

She told everyone she had a miscarriage. Luckily enough, the maid passed the duty onto one of the newer butlers and he couldn't kill Harry.

He gave Harry to his cousin and he raised him until he was 14, then he died and Harry was sold by the man's sister to pay off her debt.

Everyone could tell that Harry was a royal, and instead of surrendering him to the royal family to be dealt with, they sold him in a slave trade to be some noble's plaything because he was a very handsome child.

That's where we'll find him.

"A murderer? Oh my, that is serious," I faked a gasp.

"The count's son was one of his unfortunate victims," Father shook his head sadly.

But I knew there was no murderer. So that could only mean someone killed the person who tried to assault me. It's either father knows who it is, or he did it himself.

Either way, I was slightly relieved that he was punished accordingly, without trouble.

"Oh dear... How... Unfortunate," I said, unable to hold in a small smile.

I felt my head throb a bit.

"Ah!" I exclaimed in pain.

"Snowflake... Let's talk about something else! L-Like, what contract did you sign with Minoru?" Father said quickly.

"... My eyes turned red... Didn't it?" I asked blankly.

"... Did you agree to something I wouldn't? The contract looked very restricting, " my father said with a forced laugh.

His expression said it all. I can't feel things that are too negative. Especially now that I have something that enhances such feelings...

"Haha... So, uncle Minoru hasn't told you yet? Did you break the contract?" I smiled, checking for the hidden markings on my neck.

"Autillia!" I chanted, but surprisingly, the markings were still in fact there.

"I wanted you to decide for yourself, I trust you of course," my father smiled, handing me the earrings.

I giggled slightly, "Alright, I think uncle Minoru should hear my answer as well,"

"Already here," Minoru knocked.

Father opened the door and let him in.

"How are you feeling, Princess? Better I hope, oh! And it would be good to hear that--," Father quickly shook his head as Minoru immediately shut himself up.

"That... You should hear good news only! Positivity! Haha... What were we talking about?" uncle asked, slightly confused.

Despite meeting him twice, he seems to change in attitude everytime I see him. Or maybe it depends on the situation.

"We were talking about this," I smiled, showing him the earrings.

"Ah, yes, our contract. Have you decided yet, Princess?" he asked with a glance.

"Yep," I nodded, tossing him the earrings.

"Since we're stuck anyway, why not right?" I laughed.

"Right you are, Princess!" Minoru smile excitedly.

"Now hold on, what did you agree to?"

"Therapy," I said bored.

"Like... Like therapy for you? Or...?" Father asked confused.

"More like for the Slade family's heirs," I shrugged.

"Therapist... My daughter is NOT a THERAPIST! My daughter has better things to do than teaching your son's the meaning of morality!" Father screamed at Minoru.

"Oh, hey, she said the same thing as well!"

"Snow will not take a step NEAR those dirt bags," Father growled.

"Too bad," Minoru stuck out his tongue, holding up the earrings.

Father nearly crushed his neck but Minoru stopped him.

"Ah, ah, ah. 3 months, that's quite a long time without magic in a dangerous place like Slade," he taunted.

"He has a point, father," I laughed.

"... Fine..." Father spat.

"Interfering is 6 months," Minoru continued.

"... This isn't well timed. Her red moon is here and you want her to do this?" Father asked.

"What about my red moon?" I asked confused.

"Uhm--, we'll talk about this later, we'll leave first, Princess," Minoru said quickly, ushering father out.

"Harley?" I summoned.

"Yes, my Whip?" He appeared.

"What were they talking about? What about my 'red moon'?" I asked, confused.

"... Well, there is something different about having a 'red moon' as a beast and one as a human," Harley explained hesitantly.

Before Harley could say anything more, a grappling hook was thrown through my window.

I quickly ran and immediately tried to throw it off.

"Wait!" a familiar voice called.

"Rei!?" I exclaimed in disbelief.

"Hey there, stranger. Mind helping me up before the guards catch me?" I laughed and grabbed his hand, pulling him to the ledge of my window.

"Burn the evidence! Or else I can't stay for long!" Reinel said playfully as I burned the rope.

"What are you doing here? I thought the border was closed," I hugged him.

"Hi, Rei," Harley waved.

"Ah, Harley..." Reinel laughed awkwardly.

Harley was a fairly feared figure in our group after all.

"Well, Leo and Ren went to great lengths for me to be here right now and would kill me if they found out I took all the credit," he smiled, sniffing the air.

"Strange. What's that scent? A new perfume perhaps? It smells nice," he smiled, looking around for the scent.

"Back off, snake. The red moon is out," Harley smiled threateningly and blocked me protectively.

Reinel's eyes widened in shock as he covered his nose with his arm and ran for the bathroom.

"W-What was that?" I asked confused and slightly offended.

Reinel came out with a cloth wrapped around half of his face.

"Female beasts secrete an aphrodisiac like pheromone when their red moon comes out. It activates a primal instinct in male beasts to... Well, mate," Harley explained.

"Why didn't you tell me you got your red moon?" Reinel asked, keeping a good distance.

"I didn't think it was that important--, what do you mean aphrodisiac like?" I asked Harley again.

"The affect is strongest to male beasts who haven't mated yet, so Reinel here was panicking. The nice scent he was talking about? A few more minutes inhaling that and he would've lost all sense. Your red moon is particularly strong as well since you've never mated either," Harley laughed teasingly, flicking my forehead.

"Y-You're joking, right?" I laughed awkwardly.

"I'm surprised you don't know this," Reinel's voiced was muffled from the cloth.

"Could you like... Go to the furthest part of the room please?" I asked, slightly embarrassed.

"Gladly," he backed away and sat in the furthest corner of the room.

"So how's Slade??" I heard Rei's muffled voice but couldn't quite make out what he was saying.

"What?" I asked.

"This is going to go nowhere, give me a pen and paper," Harley snickered, going over to Reinel.

Reinel wrote on the paper as Harley playfully turned it into a paper airplane and threw it at me.

'Everyone's worried about you, are you sure you'll be alright? We can sneak you out if you need,' I read.

I wrote my response, 'I can't leave even if I wanted to. I'm bound by contract, King Minoru asked a favor that I agreed to,'

I sent the airplane back as Reinel read it, scrunching his nose in displeasure.

Suddenly the door barged open.

"Princess, about the contract, your father and I may have a solution to it," Minoru said suddenly, reading the label of some pills in hand and not noticing Reinel behind him.

"Ah, you must be Snow's transformation spirit, you look just like Jessica, your father's transformation spirit," Minoru smiled.

"Yes, the name's Harley Quinton, king Minoru," Harley said, holding back his laughter.

Me and Harley suddenly choked on our laughter as Reinel desperately tried to work around Minoru.

"Is there something funny, Princess?" Minoru asked confused.

"I don't know, I just felt like laughing all of a sudden," I wheezed as Harley could barely nod in agreement.

"Oh, well, Aina is like that as well, sometimes at tea time she thinks of something funny and the tea gets everywhere..." King Minoru sighed.

Reinel almost made it to the window when king Minoru turned around.

"So what we've decided is--, what the-- who are you?" Minoru asked confused as Reinel jumped out the window in shock.

"Harley, I don't think he had an escape plan," I laughed as Harley immediately went to catch the falling Reinel.

"On it," he replied.

"A friend of yours?" Minoru asked casually.

"Yep," I smiled.

"So, no gaurds then?" He asked with a playful smile.

"Nope," I shook my head.

"Alright then, back to the original conversation," he cleared his throat.

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