Melissa

The large wide courtyard of the estate is illuminated by the dawn sun, flowers wet from the night rain are showing in the wind, plum trees rustle with early spring leaves, Melissa is sitting on a swing in the middle of the courtyard, looking into the distance, her book that she put aside is also lying on the swing. Melissa has never left the walls of the estate in her life, she was promised to come out into the world on her eighteenth birthday, which was in three days

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