"Uwah?!"

Fanilly's eyes snapped open and she let out a yelp when she felt something small land on her stomach. Rubbing her eyes, the blonde-haired girl slowly sat up and rubbed her eyes, blearily perceiving a tiny white-haired form now sitting on her. After a moment's pause, where she was utterly confused, the sleepy knight-captain came to realize that this was Lilianna's young daughter, Vivien. Yawning, she reached out to pat the little girl's head.

"Hi, Vivien..." she said, rubbing her eyes with her free hand. What time was it? If Vivien was up and about, it couldn't be that early... Had she overslept a little? The smallish girl rubbed her eyes again as her gaze drifted upwards towards the window... and she saw just how bright it was outside. For a few moments, Fanilly's eyes were wide with horror. Not only had she slept in, but she'd slept in that late?! Oh... oh no, oh no...

Gently resettling the little girl with a quick apology, Fanilly quickly whipped off her nightgown and began desperately searching through her clothing. This wouldn't do, sleeping this late just wouldn't do, not for the Knight-Captain of the Iron Roses...!

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Tiral would hear a distinctive voice humming to his left as he departed from his office, the tune a rather familiar one. It wasn't as if anyone could easily forget the Milk Bunny Song, after all. Unfortunately, this was the only warning the mage-knight would get before someone carrying a large stack of books collided with him. This sent the one responsible falling backwards onto her rear end with a yelp of surprise, catapulting all the books into the air and promptly scattering them across the ground.

The girl who had collided with Tiral was revealed, rubbing her backside.

"Ow ow ow..."

The pigtailed maid was likely easy to recognize on sight. One of Fanilly's maids, Alaree.

"Ah? Sir Tiral?" she asked, looking up at him, "Errr... you just kind of came out of no-where!"

It was a rather weak excuse, especially when the real reason was likely that the short girl was simply carrying far too many books to see over the stack.