The balcony of Damian's room was the perfect place for him to used to leave his room during nighttime, so he did just that.

It was a beautiful starry sky outside, and Damian took a moment to look up and contemplate the scenery, thinking about all the things that had happened to him since the first day he joined Garmony Upper School.

He had met quite a few people during his journey, but two of them, his first friends, were not with him, and they could not even contact each other.

"Aurora, Magnus, I will find you two after I leave this castle," Damian thought.

Damian was lost in thoughts as he stared at the sky, only returning to his senses after he heard a voice coming from his left side.

"Damian? Are you also enjoying the beautiful sky tonight? I do this almost every day!" Astrid said.

She went to her balcony almost every day to see the stars. It was her way of connecting with the world.

Astrid had no friends in the castle. Sure, some servants talked to her, but their worlds were different. Joffrey, her brother, was now busy attending classes in Garmony Upper School, and he was only there during the vacation.

After it ended, she would be all alone again. The stars and the moon were her only friends, and she talked to them every night.

But now it was no longer the case! Damian was there, and he was someone she could talk to.

"Yes, the night is beautiful tonight, but not even close to your beauty," Damian said, smiling toward Astrid.

It caught her off guard. Her cheeks turned red, and she moved her gaze away from Damian, looking toward the moon, "t-thanks. Do you want to come here to my balcony?"

That was an invitation Damian would not refuse. He jumped over to her balcony -- it was rather close, so he did it without using his Telekineses to fly.

"My brother often watched the sky with me," Astrid said, remembering of her past, "Damian, will you help us find him in the future?"

Damian could see she cared for her older brother and missed him. But how long did he disappear? He was not stupid to think that after all this time, her brother was still alive.

Sure, and if there was one, Damian would help her.

"I will do anything I can to help you find him," Damian said.historical

It was not one hundred percent true. He barely knew them, so why should he help? But, if Glen did what he told him, and helped him grow his organization and perhaps clear his name of those who were chasing him, then he would surely help find her brother.

Damian did not want to hurt her by saying the uncorrected words, and he believed being there for her at that moment was the most important thing, and not all the promises he was making.

They both sat together on the balcony, watching the stars and the moon. The surrounding area was so silent that the two could hear each other's breathing.

She moved closer to him, grabbing his hand. Damian said nothing as he felt the soft fingers and palm of Astrid.

"I-I never kissed someone before," she said, trying to pick up the right words to form the sentence.

The direction of the conversation was one Damian was not expecting, at least not in their first contact.

"And why are you telling me this?"

"I-I don't know," Astrid said.

Damian knew she would not make the first move, so he got even closer to her, wrapping his arm around her waist. "do you trust in me with this?" he said.

"Y-yes."

He moved closer to her, and their lips met. The softness of her lips; the taste of her strawberry gloss; everything was perfect!

It was safe to say she was a princess. Damian did not use his tongue at first, but then he did, and she did not know what to do, but followed along, wrapping her tongue around his.

She did not know how a kiss would feel, and it was better than she expected!

"How did it feel?" Damian asked.

-Astrid: "The feeling of his lips and tongue! I never felt something like this before. Also, why is my heart beating so fast, and this butterfly sensation on my stomach?"

Damian also felt some strange things during the kiss, like love at first sight. That should not be possible, not for him. Could he love more than one girl at the time?

Or was it just an illusion? Damian was lost, and he did not know how to interpret his feelings, especially the ones with Astrid and Aurora, two of the girls he met. That made his heart stir.

"I will head back to my room now," Astrid said, getting up from the balcony.

"Are we okay?" Damian asked.

"Yes, we are. I just need to think about some things."

Damian could understand why she would feel that way, so he did not ask further questions and let her get back to her room.

"Now let's return to the reason I left my room."

The first thing he did was activate his invisibility cloak to disappear in the night sky, floating toward the structure where Astrid said they buried the dead people.

Damian's instincts were telling him that there was something else behind the matter, and that time, he trusted them.

It took him little time to reach the place, and all the guards who were patrolling inside the castle did not notice his presence. Then Damian waited for a few minutes to make sure there were no guards around the area when he tried to open the place.

He acted quick, opening the double door of the stone building and then closing right afterward. Then Damian faced a staircase down, just like the entrance of a dungeon.

"Could it be the entrance of the dungeon?"

Damian was not sure, so he went down, hoping to uncover what they were hiding.