My mouth turned into a 0 when he finished speaking. He saw me like this and smiled with a warmth that made my cheeks as pink as the leaves of a tree or even darker.

  Please don't smile at me like that...

I said to myself.

"I have something to ask you. Would you like to work in the palace since you said you wished to find a job here. I see that living in that house for a long time without doing anything is boring, isn't it?"

he said to me, staring at the sky, his eyes catching up with the birds that Fly freely in the vast sky....