Chapter 7

                                    

                                          
"Of all places, of all people! AHHH! Why do I keep running into that woman." Solar said storming out of the banquet. "There's not a single good thing about her. She knew I was underage but took advantage of me anyway! And the other noblewomen weren't any better, either they seemed amused. How could they let a wretch like that run about? Why on earth isn't the new mistress overseeing these things?!" Solar said.
                          
"You were most impressive today, my lady," Yubin said.
                          
"How did you find the maiden so quickly, my lady? And one that hadn't yet even bloomed," Lisa said. The noblewomen were talking about how lucky they were to have a mistress like Byul, and she just watched.
                          
"She must've bedded loads of flower maidens to have detected one right away. How befitting of the ill-reputed black sheep of the Moon family. Isn't that what you all are thinking," Byul said playing with the jar of liquor in her hands.
                          
"A-absolutely not, my lady. We would never," the noblewomen said, and Byul just smirk.
                          
"Raise your glasses," and so the noblewomen did.  "You ladies must not know how to take a little joke. It was rather enjoyable to watch the looks on your faces," Byul said laughing while the noblewomen laugh awkwardly. "My choice must've spoiled your night. Don't mind me and go enjoy yourselves in the other rooms. This rogue bids you all a good night," Byul said heading out of the table.
                          
 Once Byul left the women were talking about how scary she looks and how she drags family name while Byul was drinking from the jar walking to her destination.
                          
"Those sycophants. Do they think I'll buy their flattery? Trite words, trite laugher, trite gossip! Pathetic spineless bitches that don't even have the courage of a young flower maiden," Byul said pissed throwing the jar on the floor.
                          
A mature flower maiden blooms once a month. A blooming flower maiden experiences intense lust as well as pain. Only by bedding, another woman can the maiden relieve this pain. If a flower maiden in bloom does not engage in sexual activity, she falls ill for 3 days and if she continues to stay in bloom, she will die within a year, but even flower maidens who bed other women whenever they bloom do not survive beyond their 10th year of adulthood. This curse is called "Flower Poison." 
                          
Solar headed to the secret place she hides in the garden and enters and closes the doors. She grabbed her box from her shelf and opened it and started to make her potions. Flower poison runs in the blood of all flower maidens. "Hope this concoction is more effective than the last," Solar said while balancing the ingredients. But there is an antidote to every poison. That is the hope I hold on to. 
                          
"Solar, once we get you treated, let's go tour the capital. I got this pendant for you to wear that day," Solar father said when Solar was 6 years old. I'm going to break the course. I'm going to live the life of my parents so wished to give me. 
                          
"Mother, father," Solar said grabbing her pendant that was in her skirt, but she notices it wasn't there. "It's gone! Where did my pendant go? Did I leave it in my room," she said trying to search her pendant. "Nooo! I can't have lost the only keepsake my parents left me. It's not in the apothecary, not in my room. Where could it be? I've looked everywhere. Where on earth did I-," Solar said when she started to think that probably she left it in one place.
                          
The sun was setting and Solar headed to the secret garden.
                          
"There's no harm in looking," Solar said to herself looking around to see if there was someone. She grabs the arm of the tree and climbs the wall to the other side of the secret garden. She got down still looking around when someone grabbed her and cover her mouth.
                          
"You?"
                          
"Shh. Quiet," the ghost garden said to Solar and she just nodded.
                          
"She's the one who saved me from drowning. The masked figure with warm eyes, the secret garden ghost," Solar said to herself.