"No doubt they were waiting for us," Lina replied with obvious surprise.
That girl without wasting time approached the door, in her hands the knob that allows access to such a place, however, carefully turned it on its own axis and that door opened as if nothing.
"Good God it's spectacularly beautiful" he shouted seeing inside while still holding close to the portal.
I had intended to approach Lina and next to her to see the inside of that room because I wanted first of all to know what was the reason for her surprise, but Silea replied.
"Follow me" and without further ado I resume his march keeping total silence again.
Lina after listening to that girl turned her head to me and watching as she was moving away mused.
"Don't stay there dear, come on follow her. "
For a few seconds I looked at Lina who kept watching me from the access portal to her room and seeing that I was not moving from place, she raised her right hand and made a gesture encouraging me to follow her.
Faced with such a question I had no choice but to straighten my body and then I took a deep breath to obediently start walking.
That girl and I followed that corridor for a few ten more steps until we reached the end of that first corridor which, to my surprise, opens up in front of a common room.
In it there is a huge cream-colored corner armchair with fairly wide seats that lies right in the center of that room making it undoubtedly the central point of that entire living room.
Behind such an armchair there are two comfortable reclining armchairs in the same tone, in which two people fit perfectly and in front of these a shelf with a huge screen is visible just like that combination in golden tones that shines throughout the house.
"If the uncle is involved in illicit business" I thought because the ostentation and luxury were too much.
Step by step before the evident patience of Silea I walked always trying to keep close to her, but without taking my eyes off such a place because before anything its large size was surprising.
Already when the great hall begins to finish a new corridor opens before our eyes and not very well that one starts, Silea stopped retreating for a few steps from that first door to the right as Mrs. Meredith commented.
On that door as I passed with Lina in front of her lies a small identification sign with my name "Emma" written in a perfect old calligraphy in pendulum style.
Once there in front of that entrance Silea extended her hand to tell me to enter just like she did with Lina and I paid attention to her, that's how I ended up approaching the door and then entered what would be my room for the next 28 hours.
Berry image dazzle once inside, a huge room mostly in a white tone from the floor to the ceiling with subtle tones in blue, gold and gray that changed the monotonous image that that color usually produces leaving the conceivable in sight.
Feeling a little overwhelmed by such a colossal space because of starting to compare it is twice the size of my room in Vinchenzo and so thinking that this is not so tiny I turned around to look for Silea because I needed to make a special request, but to my surprise that girl was no longer there.
Largely presuming that Silea would not be too far away I dropped my suitcase on the side and ran to the door.
Once there I poked my head out to try to see in which direction she had retreated and after turning my head in both directions in her search I finally saw her.
She was already arriving near the door that leads to Lina's room when after seeing her I screamed.
"Silea waits. "
The truth is, I didn't wait for her to emit any movement in my direction after listening to me when I trotted out from the side of my door to quickly get to her, that girl when she saw that I was approaching as if nothing turned in my direction.
"You need something else, miss," she said with that cold expression incomprehensible to me.
"The truth is, I'm sorry to bother you, do you know if there is maybe a smaller room, I mean that one is too spacious for me alone. "
"No, Miss, at least not on this floor, now I don't think Mr. Lombardi would be happy to know that your guest rejected the space he chose especially for you. "
"It's really too much, it's very overwhelming. "
"I'm sorry about that, but I can't do anything else. "
And just walked away leaving me practically there to my fate.
Faced with the loneliness and the feeling that such an imposing place emits, being aware that the only thing half recognizable by me in all that place and that because he just saw it, was that room so I decided after seeing how Silea disappeared down the stairs at the bottom before my gaze, to return.
Once in that room curiosity took me, first of all it took over me, so like a child I dedicated myself to discovering its space and its secrets and carefully walked through its spaces trying not to break anything while my eyes went from here to there.
So I kept fidgeting and prying for a while until I came to a window at the side of the room.
Once in front of her I removed the curtains that covered her; opening that window I ended up bumping into a small balcony from which the garden where the access road to the house is can be seen.
The picture that can be distinguished from above is unusually beautiful and indescribable.
Minutes later...
After spending some time rummaging and arranging the things I had taken with me in complete solitude, a particular sound caught my attention.
Knock, Knock, Knock!
The hollow sound of knuckles hitting the surface of the door echoed dispersing the silence in which I had been enveloped for a while.
The door almost immediately even slowly was opened and a voice echoed from behind it.
"I can come in. "
"Yes go ahead. "
It wasn't until he moved completely and that I completely pushed the door away that he let me see him.
"Uncle Martin when you arrived. "
"A moment ago already... "
"I didn't think you'd find yourself in the store yet. "
"No, as I said a moment ago I arrived and as I saw that Meredith and the others had already finished ordering the kitchen, I thought I'd come and let you know that you can already have this available, there you will find everything you asked me arranged on the counter. "
"Perfect uncle thanks for letting me know. "
The guy from where he was stood watching me wistfully.
"Something is wrong" I asked after observing his pale face that let me see the melancholy that was forming in his eyes.
"Not Emma. "
"You're sure. "
"If he neglects, well I retire, I have some things to do, in any case if you need me look for Meredith and ask her to take you to my office I'll be there. "
"It's okay uncle. "
That one started to move away and with it to close the door to nothing I knew that not everything was complete yet because to make a blueberry pie just like Grandma Linsey did, one more special ingredient was missing so I screamed.
"Wait, uncle. "
"Yes tell me. "
"Do you know if there are viola flowers in the garden or even chrysanthemum or the odd marigold. "
"I don't really know, but maybe I do, because the question. "
"It's just that I need to prepare some infusions for the foot, do you think I can take some of them from me to find them. "
"Of course you do, take the ones you need. "
After giving that answer that man withdrew and I stayed in that room for a moment more.
Before finally leaving the room I preferred to freshen up a little after feeling a little tired for a moment, so standing up I looked for the bathroom and once inside I washed my face insistently.
"I must hold out at least until the evening. "
I thought that I was aware that the tiredness after carrying all these days of work almost without rest in the Great Atlantean added to the constant events and unknowns that haunt around me that I suppose that these have stolen a lot of my energy.
Once ready I leave there and then left the room closing that door behind me.
With evident haste I cross those corridors and descend the stairs almost at a double pace, once downstairs I look for Meredith insistently and ask her to provide me with some pruning shears to cut the odd flower in case I find any that will help me.
So it was that with scissors in hand and in the company of that woman we went out to the garden where, although I did not find the flowers I was looking for, I did find some similar ones that I could also use in my preparation.
For some time while I was picking the freshest buds the memories while the uncles were still living in Belcier did not take long to go around in my head, so the images of the aunt cutting the youngest flower buds to deliver them to the aunt nested in my mind.
So after analyzing the whole situation I thought that if such a surprise was really for Aunt Susan I knew that there were a few more details that I could prepare to make her day completely.