As the morning sun rises, a new day in the orphanage begins.
The suns iridescent rays illuminates a room through the window, showing the state inside the room.
Inside the room Lucien is now no longer swaddled in a blanket, Instead Lucien is laying on his front near the edge with one leg dangling off the bed, with his tail twitching from time to time.
*Tock,tock* someone knocked on the door, but there was no response.
*creeak*
With a creaking sound the door slowly opened, showing Camilla peeking inside the room.
Camilla surveyed the now disorganized room, taken aback, as she would not have expected a very quiet kid to have... bad sleeping habits.
With an amused expression Camilla enters the room to wake up the sleeping Lucien.
"Wakey, Wakey" Camilla said softly while rocking Lucien.
That action caused Lucien to wake up in a groggy state.
With a groan Lucien rises up from the bed, now vastly different from the clean and proper figure from yesterday.
Lucien's bun was undone causing some of his hair to rise up in an unworldly manner, while one of his overall straps is let loose and fell off of his left shoulder.
Camilla giggled at the sight of the newly woken up Lucien, she then helped with taking care of his disorderly clothes and grooming his hair neatly.
Right after she helped tidy up Lucien, they are heading out to the cafeteria on the first floor.
The inside of the cafeteria was very chaotic, with multiple children playing.
The cafeteria then went silent after seeing Camilla enter with Lucien in tow.
Camilla seeing the children didn't get angry but rather just sighed at the sight.
"Now, now~ go back to eating everyone, we can have play time later." Camilla said while leading Lucien to the food station.
"OKAY! SISTER CAMILLA!" The children replied before scurrying back to their sits.
With the clattering of utensils as background noise, Camilla picked up a ceramic plate and a spoon and fork.
Camilla then went to inspect the trays and greeted a man with brown hair tied to a messy man bun wearing a dirty apron seemingly in his 30-s.
"Morning Gustav, what is today's occasion?" Camilla asked while looking at the portions.
"Pork steak, with fruits and vegetables that was harvested from your garden I suppose." Gustav said while tinkering with some pots and pans.
"Ooh~~,Pork steak! Lucien is surely going to love this, especially if Gustav cooked it." Camilla said before scooping some of it with along with rice.
"Oh you flatter me, but Lucien?, Is that another child you picked up?" Gustav said with raised eyebrows.
Camilla just hummed in response before adding a few fruits and veggies on the plate.
Seeing Camilla's reaction Gustav just sighed in exasperation.
After picking what Camilla thought to be a nutritionally balanced meal(it's not), seeing her handiwork she nodded in pride.
Camilla then survey the cafeteria trying to find an open seat.
Finally finding one after a checking a few nooks and crannies, Camilla spotted a few by the edges of the cafeteria.
"Come Lucien." Camilla said while beckoning Lucien to follow her.
Lucien seeing the gesture and saw that Camilla is about to move, followed instinctively.
As the duo are heading towards to their destination, a door opened behind the counter by the back with a figure holding a basket full of ingredients entering through it.
The figure had waist long gray hair tied to a single ponytail, the figure wore a brown denim bib overalls, with a grayish-black t-shirt tucked in, the t-shirt says a word in a big font 'Civic'.
The figure then saw Camilla helping a child to sit down on a chair, while also greeting the children sitting on the table.
"Did Milla brought back another one?" The figure said before dropping the basket on the kitchen sink.
"Thanks for the drop-off Natalia, and yes she brought back another one." Gustav said with a shrug.
"Yieesh, thats the 4th one this week, sooner or later this place will have full capacity." Natalia reeled in surprise.
"You tell me." Gustav said before heading to take a seat.
Lucien now seated looks at the retreating figure of Camilla before looking back on what is in front of him.
A plate of food is rested infront of Lucien, the plate contains a portion of rice, each a portion of fruits and vegetables, with half of the plate covered in meat.
As Lucien studied the food infront of him, he looked at the other kids on the table.
On the table, there is a total of four other kids dining with Lucien.
The tables of the cafeteria can house a total of twelve children with six on each side.
Lucien studied the other kids, he noticed a child lifting both utensils to grab a portion of their food before guiding it into their mouth.
Lucien then looked at the other three children and saw the same thing but with slight differences, like one child is holding the utensils a different way, one of them eats quite messily while using both spoon and fork, another is just using one spoon.
Lucien noticing the similarities between the four children, grabbed the spoon and scooped up a portion of the pork steak.
Lucien then ate the spoon head along with the food on it.
The taste shocked Lucien like never before, the things he ate before by cleaning the alleys and trashcans of the street is nothing compared to this.
Lucien then put back the headless spoon on the table before grabbing the plate and devouring the plate whole along with it's contents.
This peculiar way of eating shocked the four children after noticing Lucien suddenly grabbing the plate.
This action spiraled a plate deficit problem, and making Lucien the most reliable child to approach when they don't like the food being served, but that is a story for another time.
Lucien seemingly satisfied as seen by his deadpan face seemingly glowing with stars showing up now and then.
As well as the energetic wagging of his tail.
Lucien with nothing to do surveyed the surrounding with blank eyes.
He see's each table making sounds with varying volume, some high some low but it just show how happy the children here really are.
After some time of just staring into space a loud clap took Lucien's attention.
Without him noticing the surrounding noise grew quite as if it's anticipating something.
"Ief Evri wan eis dan eiting go brash yor tith aend hed to klas"
(If everyone is done eating go brush your teeth and head to class)
Said by Natasha after getting everyone's attention.
"Okey Sistr Natasha!" The children(except Lucien) replied in varying degrees.
Lucien seeing multiple other children moving in droves he followed them.
As the chatting children journeyed through the halls they then went inside the public communal washroom.
The children split into two groups which caused Lucien to a stupor as he cannot decide which group to follow.
As Lucien is about to take his step, someone dragged him to one of the entrances.
Lucien then looks at the back of the child that is dragging him by the hand.
The child has bobbed shoulder length hair, she is wearing a pink square neck puff sleeve blouse and a denim short.
With the two children entering the female communal, they settled in one of the sinks
Lucien just stares at the mirror as he is finally seeing his face for the first time.
While Lucien is in a daze, the child who dragged him to the washroom noticed him reaching out his hand towards the mirror.
The child just tilts her head confused on Lucien's action right before climbing up a stool to open a cabinet.
Inside the cabinet, rows of hygiene kits with names to mark the kits owner appears.
The child looks through before finding one with the name 'Sarah' taking both the toothpaste and the toothbrush.
Just as Sarah jumps down the stool, she saw Lucien just staring at the others girls seemingly entranced on their actions, before noticing that he does not have any toothbrush.
Sarah then turns back to get another spare of toothbrush and toothpaste.
Lucien looking around, he noticed that many children talking in groups, while a small portion of them are alone.
But before he can get a more detailed information, a toothbrush was jabbed into his line of sight.
Lucien looks at Sarah before grabbing the toothbrush.
Seeing Lucien's action she started to brush her teeth aswell.
Lucien seeing Sarah's action also mimicked her action and the other girls aswell.
With the toothbrush in his mouth a new taste is introduced into his palate.
The refreshing feel as if a cold wind in the summer heat makes Lucien's eyes go wide, giving him a spark of a Great? idea.
Just as Lucien reenacts the great decapitation of breakfast, A hand waved infront of his face which caught his attention.
Sarah seeing on what he is about to do stopped Lucien's action.
Lucien looked at Sarah pointing at her mouth while she does a circular motion with the toothbrush with her teeth showing.
Seeing her brush her teeth Lucien does the same.
This earned a wave of relief from Sarah, then after a few minutes she rinsed her mouth with water which caused Lucien to do the same.
With them and the majority of the girls finished brushing their teeth they went to the classrooms by the hallway.
Lucien follows where Sarah goes which is the room named F1-C3, they then sat near each other at the middle left side of the room.
The room has a total of 40 seats, and these seats are full with children rambling about things they did and the plans they are about to do.
The entrance of the classroom is on the left wall and there some decors here and there which gives the classroom a homey feel.
As Lucien surveyed the room he notices on the right wall a squared outline with multiple lines in it.
Those lines intersect other lines with some sort of pattern where there is a big version with a smaller one right next to it.
The same can be said to the one next to it but with noticable differences, where in this one the lines have adjacent smaller ones that end in curly lines.
But before Lucien can take any note on the markings on the wall, the room soon turned from loud laughter to hushed voices.
"Ohkey klas, letz kontinyu on wer we lefpt of."
(Okay class, let's continue on where we left off.) a mature voice said on the podium.
"Ohkey! Mam Ann!"
(Okay! Ma'am Anne!) The children gleefully replied.
"Den kan samwan explein wat is a subjekt?"
(Then can someone explain what is a subject?) said Ma'am Anne.
As the question was raised multiple students raised their hands vying to be chosen.
But before Ma'am Anne pick a student, She gets interrupted by a knock on the door.
"who is it?" Said Ma'am Anne.
"It's mi Ann, haws yor day vin?"
(it's me Anne, how's your day been?) Camilla said causing Lucien's attention to find the familiar voice.
"O jast saym ol, saym ol, haw abawt u?"
(Oh just same old, same old, how about you?) Said Anne while caressing her cheek.
"Im jast loking phor samwan."
(I'm just looking for someone.) Camilla said while surveying the children.
When Camilla saw Lucien just staring blankly at her she dropped down to her knees while spreading her hands apart.
Lucien just stared at her.
Camilla seeing Lucien's reaction or lack therof just sighed, then she walked towards Lucien's desk.
Now face to face Camilla put her hands right under Lucien's armpits.
"hyup" Camilla said while extorting force.
Camilla carried Lucien towards the door of the classroom before stopping at the door.
"A, Il vi tiching dis Litl wan phor a bit."
(Ah, I'll be teaching this little one for a bit.) Camilla said to Miss Anne standing at the podium.
Miss Anne just nodded at Camilla's retreating figure.
"Okay klas, letz kontinyu bak on da topic"
(Okay class, let's continue back on the topic.)
Miss Anne said to the class.
As Camilla passess through the hallways with Lucien in her care, Lucien just stares as they passed one room to another.
This goes on for a while before they finally stopped at one room labed 'Daycare'.
With Both of them entering the room, the inside is shown.
The room is decorated with clouds on the blue wall showing a rainbow or two, connecting the clouds to each other.
By the door there is a shoe cabinet with colored compartments, on the floor there is a half a meter gap near the door to a puzzle mat the covers the entire floor.
On the opposite end from the door there is colored fenced off area full of toys and slides, on its opposite end is full of blankets and pillows which seems to be the napping area, while the rest is full of table with pillow seats.
"O?, nowans hir, wel ware kuld dey vi I wandr?"
(Oh?, no one's here, well where could they be I wonder?) Camilla said her thoughts aloud.
Camilla then put Lucien on one of the pillowed seats by the table before heading towards the bookshelves.
Lucien still in his blank stare state just looking at the multiple things in the room.
A Book is then placed on the table where Lucien is seating, the book is titled 'Oxvanian Picturebook.'
Camilla then seats next to Lucien, the she opened the picture book showing the letter 'A' in Oxvanian script.
"A." Camilla said while pointing at the letter.
Lucien just stares at Camilla before looking at the Picturebook.
This repeated a few times before Lucien Pointed at the letter.
"A." said Lucien.
Camilla beamed before going to the next page while going back a few times untill Lucien associated the letter to the sound.
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A/N: Oxvanian Script is basically the universal script but in Canterbury font style.
Thx for Enduring for a while, I am aiming for Lucien to learn the language in chapter 3 the soonest or Chapter 4 at the latest...
Just bear with me for a while...