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  Veronique was walking towards her lesson with Mr Doppelganger, Bos and Mos were by her sides, Lucia was on her left walking slightly behind her while Kain and Noah were trailing both.

  She took this time to think over the latest development, reaching the conclusion that didn’t know what to make of it.

  On the bright side she got the green light to keep her dogs directly from the Hound Master herself and she didn’t have to worry over the woman’s test anymore.

  On top of it she was officially going to live in the Main Wing, which meant she won’t have to worry about Rhea possibly throwing a tantrum and stealing Mos and Bos from her.

  At the least not now.

  Veronique didn’t know what was going to happen three years from now when she would have to live with the Hound Master and as much as she hated the thought of separating from Mos and Bos she had to admit that they probably would have it easier by living in the Main Wing…

  ‘Enough! That’s three years from now, I won’t even get to enjoy the time I have if I start worrying about it now’ Veronique stopped her train of thought ‘it’s quite probable that I won’t even get to be the Hound Master, since Alexander will probably banish me from the Estate the moment he’s in charge, so technically nothing has changed except that I got stuck on a fixed career path’ she ended up spiraling on another set of thoughts regarding her future ‘I can’t tell if that’s a good or bad thing because I don’t know if what I will learn from the Hound Master will be of any use to me outside the Aurelia’s grounds, but at the same time I seriously doubt I could have pulled building a business or anything of the sort’ Veronique had to be honest with herself ‘I have no idea of how to replicate any of the modern commodities of my former world to give myself an advantage there, I am just an unskilled loser who watched horror movies and sometimes read fiction, not an engineer or a bookworm’ an intrusive thought took over ‘Damn it sure would be nice if I had the knowledge to reinvent television’

  “Lady V-Veronique” Lucia’s voice brought her back to reality “Mr Doppelganger’s s-study is t-that way” she pointed out making the eight year old notice that they walked away from Mr Doppelganger’s door quite a bit

  “Oh sorry I got lost in thought” Veronique’s cheeks went a bit red from the embarrassment as she corrected course, Noah lightly snorted but the redhead could feel Kain glared at him for it

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  “May I a-ask what y-you were t-thinking about?” Lucia had asked as they got back in track

  “Just the future” Veronique responded vaguely about it

  “I am sure y-you will be a g-good Hound M-Master” Lucia tried at reassure her, but her words just made her giggle out of disbelief

  “As if, I don’t think Alexander will keep me around if you know what I mean” the truth slipped out of her “I will still do my best, but I wonder if I will have any use for it after” the redhead was quick to say as her maid had stayed silent

  “Ehm I-I” Lucia was clearly at loss of words but Veronique didn’t think much of it

  “Keep Mos and Bos out of trouble” the redhead recommended her as they had reached their destination

  This time she was sure she was going to master Hover

  Ivan Doppelganger’s Study

  “So do you think your friend is up to showing up?” Mr Doppelganger had asked eagerly, his eyes basically twinkling out of excitement, at that Veronique looked over to Hanging Jaw

  ‘It’s the only one I can show up to him if I want to keep it a secret that there are more’ she thought as Hanging Jaw had dodged her the last times she tried to make it visible again ‘I can’t keep putting this off forever, eventually Mr Doppelganger will run out of patience’ the Dead seemed to have understood it as well as this time it didn’t shy away even if it clearly didn’t look happy about the arrangement

  “I think so” Veronique had said gathering her mana in her hand and reaching over to grab the wrist Hanging Jaw was reluctantly offering for her to take

  Immediately after it turned visible Mr Doppelganger got basically in its face with a small notebook and started taking notes, Veronique noticed he had flipped an hourglass to keep track of the time

  “Let’s see for how long you can keep it visible” he had declared and so the next half an hour was spent this way, which was a bit frustrating on top of boring since Veronique had been so close to mastering Hover and it felt as if she was wasting her time.

  She doubted there was any instance where making one of her Dead visible could be useful to her.

  It would just bring more trouble then it was worth it, Veronique could already imagine a possible scenario with it.

  “See I am not crazy, they are real!” Veronique would declare to not be admitted to an Asylum as she made a couple of her Dead visible to show them off

  “Burn the witch! Burn the witch!” a magically appearing mob would chant as they tied her to the stake and set her on fire.

  Nope, better to keep it hidden till the end of times

  “Think you can use Hover while keeping this up?” Mr Doppelganger inquired snapping her out of her daydream

  “I don’t know, I can try” Veronique had answered after thinking about it

  “Go on” he encouraged her to try it out

  “Hover” as Veronique used the skill on her desk, Hanging Jaw flickered for a moment before stabilizing

  “Wonderful, now try to hold on both” this was easier said then done, the mana kept wanting to go in one direction and it felt like holding up a pair of weights while trying to stop them from pulling into eachother.

  Veronique didn't know how long she could keep it up.