Her Graceful War Song by Summer's Blaze

Carissa called Violet over, asking her to help place Kayla on her back. With Kayla securely on her back, Carissa hurried back to the carriage.

"Stay here. I'll find it for you," she promised.

Kayla shivered uncontrollably, her hair soaked through. It was impossible to tell whether the moisture on her face was from tears or rain, and her lips quivered violently. "Please... Please, you must find it."

"Don't come out!" Carissa's tone grew more urgent. "Take care of yourself. We can't have you distressed, even in spirit."

Kayla covered her face and wept.

Carissa instructed the coachman to keep an eye on Kayla, then turned back to continue the search.

After a little more than half an hour, the carriages began to thin out, but the rain still poured relentlessly. The sky was ominously dark. Even with the help of the coachman from the Marquis of Elderglen's family and three others, they were exhausted and unable to find the earring.

Just as they were about to give up, Carissa noticed a glint of light near the academy's entrance. She rushed over and found that it was indeed the pearl earring. She quickly picked it up, but the earring was damaged the gold thread and the two gold leaves holding the pearl were missing, leaving only the pearl itself.

The place she found the earring wasn't where Kayla had fallen. The earring must have been crushed by a carriage and then kicked to this spot.

the area briefly and managed to recover one thin gold leaf, but couldn't

the carriage. Carissa held out the pearl and

in her palm. She

on her shoulder. She felt the intense heat of Kayla's

seemed she was used to suppressing her emotions, and she soon composed herself.

"I was so afraid it would be lost like his remains, but finding it now is

signaled her maid to help her out of the carriage and thanked Carissa again before limping toward

dripping wet. The droplets fell onto her face, and she felt

"Don't be too upset. This is the fate of many soldiers. Remember the many battles we fought at the Southern Frontier? We lost so

suffer the most," Carissa replied, wiping her face with the

already deeply attached before their

murmured. "So, she remains in the Marquis of Elderglen's family, holding onto their past home. She even adopted a son and named him Alexander, just as they

Violet sighed,

Septimus really is

wife married to someone else Meanwhile, Lady Kayla, who waited so long,