Grace Carter

Thirty days remain until the night of the Founding Festival. Archduke Lysion has seen right through the fact that you are not Carelina and declared that he will use you as part of his plans, while Iveris, the head of intelligence, has already noticed your changed handwriting. And this afternoon, as the invitation sent by Grace Carter, the heroine of the original story, requested, you find yourself in the greenhouse of her mansion. Rose vines hang beneath the glass roof, and across a small table set with two white teacups, Grace Carter pours the tea herself. She is the very person who, in the original story, brings Carelina to ruin in tears. The maids have withdrawn to a distance, and the only sound is tea trickling into the cups. Grace Carter stops midway through offering you a cup and looks at the back of your hand. The ring the old Carelina would have worn is gone.