Olivia immediately put on a pair of flats and excitedly ran towards the door,
Mars was standing sincerely outside the door as he promised,
Mars stunned to see Olivia,
"Are you okay?" he nervously asked.
"I am fine!"...she exclaimed smiling
"Where is Alice?" she asked looking around.
"Might be in the garden", he thoughtfully replied,
"Mars, Can you take me there?"
"Sure!"
Both walk down to the garden,
Olivia amusedly looking around the mansion. She was amazed to see the carved ceilings, velvet curtains, expensive carpets covering the marble floor, the number of servants roaming and working in the mansion.
Mars took her to a lush green well-maintained garden,
This garden is quite different from the usual garden people have in the city. This garden has all the natural pine trees perfectly trimmed.
Suddenly Olivia saw Alice running behind the beautiful, colourful butterflies.
"Alice"..., Olivia excitedly called her,
Mars's eyes sparkled with joy looking at Olivia smiling face.
"Hey Olivia, I am so glad to see you," Alice ran to them yelling joyfully, yelling
She grabbed Olivia's hand and starts pulling her to a place,
"Come Olivia I will saw you at my favourite place."
"Hey, Alice, please be gentle to her, she is injured," Mars politely said to Alice,
"Sorry, Mars," she replied
They saunter through a natural avenue of trees, it is shady, dark and cool almost cold. As they come to the end of the trees it opens up into a lake. The air is warmer, the sounds of insects are almost too loud. The lake seems like a black void, the sun bouncing off its surface.
A plopping sound as a fish breaks the surface and ripples widening out. They are at the edge of the lake now, the pebbles underfoot, crunch, a moorhen is disturbed and runs off along the banking, distracting her from its nest. A Kestral attracted by the disturbance hovers above the next field. The smell, of water and 'ozone', warmth and living.
Alice took her to the shore of a beautiful lake, Olivia was stunned to see a private lake.
"You own a lake?" she amusedly asked Mars,
"We own this kingdom dear!" he whispered smirkingly.
“Oh, certainly, you are a prince, Perks of being rich,“ She muttered astonishingly looking around and saw two boats at the shore,
This is a natural lake with so many beautiful white and pink lotuses floating on the water,
She sat down on the edge of the water on a small rock and peer into its depths, she only sees pondweed and small insects at first. As she remains still, layers of water somehow become apparent, the open light layer with minnows darting about, the next darker layer, a large carp is sitting, watching her as she watches him. Then the dark bottom of the pond, the brown silt moving with life.
The dragonflies catch her attention, landing on a bullrush nearby. She lifts her gaze for a moment to see them in their metallic blue finery. From the corner of her eye, she sees a shape move in the water. she looks back and realises there are loads of fish, her eyes sparkled as she never saw so many fishes before, she saw their black shapes but did not recognise them as fish. There is another pop sound and concentric circles form on the lake, a Moorhen runs away startled.
Though the water was still, with the breezes small waves pop up,
her eyes glittered to see a wonderful view, Alice was running behind the butterflies and Mars looking at Olivia's happy gestures, his heart overwhelmed with satisfaction,
Suddenly a tear rolled down her cheeks,
Mars leaned and hurriedly put his palm down her cheeks and catches the tear, he saw a crystal clear drop of tears on his palm, his satisfied heart trembled with another drop of tear,
He closed his palm holding her tears,
 "Why are these tears, Olivia?" he asked sitting next to her,
"You both are so blessed, you have everything that meant to live a good life,"
"On the other hand, I even don't know who I am? Who are my parents? I have no clues about my existence," and saying that she loudly burst out in tears, keeps on sobbing palming her face.
"Your brother showed me a picture book and he claimed that the royal couple in a picture is my parents, I even couldn't recognize them,"
"I even don't remember that woman who abandons me, how she looks? who she was?"
"My existence has no evidence and how can I be happy?" tears kept streaming down her eyes
Mars crouched in front of her on rocks, tightly held her hands and tried to calm her down,
He was shocked to hear that Marcus has shown her a picture book, but right now, he gave priority to calm her down,
“Olivia, please don't cry, I will and we both will definitely help you find your family. We will never let you down, your existence is important for me, for Alice, for everyone around you.” Mars said
“No! No…”
She screamed crying...Mars tightly hugged her and tried to soothe her,
She somehow felt a warmth in Mars's arms, slowly calms down,
He softly palmed his face and wiped her tears, "you dare not cry again, I can't handle your tears", his eyes glistened saying that,
He softly kissed her forehead and leaned his forehead on hers,
Both silently sit closed feeling each other warmth,
“Olivia….”
Suddenly they heard Alice screaming,
Olivia and Mars immediately stood from the rock and Mars helped Olivia to carefully tread through the rocks,
"Olivia see I caught a beautiful butterfly," Alice joyfully screams...
Mars and Olivia heaved a sigh of relief and smiled...
"Ohh, Alice you scarred us!” Mars sneered taking Alice in his arms and kiss her on the cheek, “Don't scream like this again, you sound scary," he chuckled
Their giggles echoed in the garden.