Ocean holds his newborn sister Kaya and bonds with frequent visitors like Mildrith Noble and Shaivi Hashmi. Mildrith advises Ocean well and he considers making her part of his small council. Meanwhile, various families in Celestia - like the Nobles, Coldwells, and Chens - go about their daily lives and form new relationships. Life in the kingdom is mostly content at this time.

1. The Kingdom of Celestia Chapter 4

2. OCEAN HELD HIS LITTLE SISTER KAYA IN HIS ARMS.
SHE WAS SO TINY. IT FELT STRANGE TO BE THIS
MUCH OLDER THAN HIS SIBLING. WELL AT LEAST
HE COULD HELP OUT WITH CARING FOR HER.

3. THAT AFTERNOON MILDRITH NOBLE WAS KIND ENOUGH TO
STOP BY. OCEAN WAS STILL GRATEFUL TO HIS FATHER FOR
INTRODUCING THEM. THE TWO HARDLY EVEN PAID
ATTENTION TO THE MATCHMAKER GWEN ANYMORE WHO HAD
MOVED IN TO THE PALACE AT THE BEGINNING OF SPRING.

4. GWEN AND OCEAN MET EVERY NIGHT BENEATH THE
STARS SO SHE COULD GET TO KNOW THE PRINCE AND
THUS BE ABLE TO FIND THE PERFECT FUTURE QUEEN OF
CELESTIA AT THE PROPER TIME.
HOW WERE YOU SUPPOSED TO KNOW THE PROPER TIME?

5. MILDRITH’S BROTHER ODDA OFTEN CAME TO THE
PALACE AS WELL SINCE THE PRINCE DIDN’T SEEM TO
MIND. MILDRITH WISHED HER BROTHER COULD WORK
A BIT AT NOT APPEARING SO FOOLISH IN PUBLIC,
HOWEVER.

6. MILDRITH WASN’T THE ONLY FREQUENT VISITOR TO
THE PLACE THESE DAYS. SHAIVI HASHMI WAS NOW A
REGULAR CALLER. THE TWO HAD REALLY CONNECTED
DURING THE TRIP TO THEIR NEIGHBORING KINGDOM.

7. HIS LORD FATHER HAD INVITED THE WHOLE
FAMILY FOR THE TRIP AFTER HE’D REALIZED
IT WAS SO IMPORTANT TO LORD VED TO
HAVE HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN WITH HIM.

8. APPARENTLY, SHAIVI HAD MANAGED TO
CONVINCE THE LOCAL GUARDS TO TEACH
HER THE ART OF TELEPORTATION. THE
PRINCE HAD NOT BEEN SO LUCKY.

9. OF COURSE HER LADY MOTHER HAD COME
FROM THIS COUNTRY AND HAD TAUGHT
SHAIVI MANY OTHER SECRETS INCLUDING
TAI CHI.

10. SHE’D LOOKED SO BEAUTIFUL SITTING IN
THE DRAGON KING’S HALL, AND HONESTLY
THE PRINCE HAD BEEN JUST TOO SHY AT
FIRST TO EVEN GO UP TO TALK TO HER.

11. HE’D WATCHED LADY HASHMI AND HER SON RAYYAN
DANCING QUITE NICELY. THE LAD HAD BEEN NICE
ENOUGH. STRANGE TO THINK IN A FEW YEARS HE’D
HAVE TO CONSIDER IF THIS KID WOULD BE A MEMBER
OF HIS SMALL COUNCIL…

12. THE YOUNG LADY AND THE PRINCE ONLY
SEEMED TO BE GROWING CLOSER
HOWEVER. HE LOVED HOW CAREFREE
SHAIVI WAS AND HOW EASILY SHE COULD
MAKE HIM SMILE.

13. MILDRITH THOUGH HAD A WAY OF BEING ABLE TO
ADVISE HIM ON JUST ABOUT ANYTHING, AND OCEAN
STILL ADMIRED HER BRAVERY. IT TOOK NERVE FOR A
WOMAN OF HER STATUS TO BE ABLE TO SO EASILY FIT
IN AMONG THE LORDS AND LADIES.

14. HE’D ASKED HER IF SHE WOULD CONSIDER HELPING WITH
SOME TASKS AND SHE’D AGREED. NOT THAT HE’D BEEN
WORRIED SHE WOULD SAY NO. HE WONDERED IF PERHAPS HE
COULD MAKE HER A MEMBER OF HIS SMALL COUNCIL? OCEAN
QUITE THOUGHT THEY BOTH WOULD LIKE THAT
ARRANGEMENT.

15. “BUT MILLI CAN’T ADVISE A PRINCE! SURELY YOU JEST MARY.”
MRS. NOBLE SHOOK HER HEAD. “I JEST NOT. MILDRITH HAS
DONE QUITE WELL FOR HERSELF.”
“I’LL SAY INDEED THE LITTLE WAIF HAS IF WHAT YOU SAY IS
TRUE.”

16. IT WAS THE TALK OF THE HAMLET. MILDRITH NOBLE, A
LITTLE GIRL WHO’D LOST HER PARENTS TO A FIRE AND
BEEN ADOPTED BY THEIR NEIGHBORS RISING AS HIGH
AS BEFRIENDING THE FUTURE KING FROM KIMMIE
NUGEN TO.

17. RUBY COLDWELL, THE LOCAL GOSSIP.
HONESTLY, HOW LEO PUT UP WITH THAT
WOMAN DAY AND NIGHT MADE A MAN
THINK.

18. KIMMIE ONLY TOLERATED THE WOMAN AND
SUFFERED THROUGH HER DINNER PARTIES
BECAUSE IT ALLOWED HER TO MINGLE
WITH THOSE IN A HIGHER STATION.

19. IT WAS SAD THAT RUBY HAD NO IDEA WHAT THE REST OF
THE KINGDOM REALLY THOUGHT ABOUT HER. SMRITHI
ONLY WENT TO THE CARD GAMES OUT OF PAYING TRIBUTE
TO RUBY’S HUSBAND. LEO WAS A GOOD MAN WHO WORKED
HARD AND DID WELL KEEPING THE MARKET SO WELL RUN.

20. KIMMIE SNAPPED OUT OF HER THOUGHTS AND WATCHED HER
BOYS WORKING IN THEIR SMALL LIVING ROOMS. HER SONS
KEITH AND MARCUS WERE ABOUT THE TASK OF HELPING THEIR
FATHER WITH ACCOUNT BALANCING. SHE WAS GLAD THE BOYS
HAD INHERITED HER HUSBAND’S SENSE OF NUMBERS.

21. KEEPING TRACK OF THE NUMBERS WAS
THE MOST DIFFICULT TASK FOR HER
WHEN IT CAME TO RUNNING HER SHOP.

22. FORTUNATELY, MASTER LEO COLDWELL HAD
HELPED HER SET EVERYTHING UP. HE
OVERSAW THE ENTIRE LOCAL MARKETPLACE,
AND TRULY HE WAS A LIFESAVER.

23. LEO AND RUBY’S SON NOAH OFTEN CAME
WITH HIS FATHER WHEN HE COLLECTED
RENT AND OTHER INFORMATION. HE
SEEMED NICE ENOUGH.

24. OVERALL HER LITTLE FLOWER
SHOP SEEMED TO BE DOING WELL
ENOUGH.

25. EVEN IF RUBY WAS SPREADING TALES OVER THE
KINGDOM TO TRY TO UNDERMINE HER SUCCESS. WHAT
ANNOYED HER WAS HOW RUBY ALWAYS SEEMED TO
THINK NO ONE KNEW ABOUT HER LOOSE TONGUE.

26. BACK AT HOME ELDERWOMAN GWEN HAD STARTED
MAKING CALLS TO THEIR HOUSE. IT WAS SO HARD
TO BELIEVE HER BABY BOY WAS OLD ENOUGH TO
START SEEKING OUT MARRIAGE ADVICE.

27. FOR HER PART, RUBY WAS DILIGENTLY AT WORK
GETTING TO KNOW VANESSA PETERS. SHE’D HEARD
THE WOMAN HAD A DAUGHTER HER SON’S AGE AND IT
WOULD ALWAYS DO WELL TO BEFRIEND A FELLOW
MERCHANT WHO SHE MIGHT SOON BE RELATED TO.

28. NOAH AND LYANNA SEEMED TO HIT IT OFF AND
BECOME FAST FRIENDS. IT WAS STRANGE THE GIRL
WORE TROUSERS, AND HONESTLY THE WHOLE FAMILY
SEEMED ODD TO RUBY. BUT, YOU JUST NEVER KNEW
WHAT THE ELDERWOMEN WOULD DO.

29. RUBY ENTERTAINED VANESSA THE ENTIRE
MORNING WITH HER AXE THROWING. NO
DOUBT THE WOMAN WAS GREATLY
IMPRESSED.

30. ACTUALLY VANESSA WAS JUST HAPPY TO GET HOME,
AND THAT WAS SAY SOMETHING. EVEN WITH AN HEIR
HER HUSBAND JACOB WAS STILL AS COLD AS EVER. HE
HARDLY EVER SPOKE TO HER OR THE CHILDREN. IT
WAS ODD TO EVEN HAVE HIM HOME AT ALL THOUGH.

31. AT LEAST HER SON SEEMED TO BE MAKING
FRIENDS ON HIS OWN. HE AND RUKIA CHEN HAD
MET AT THE TEA HOUSE AND NOW THE YOUNG
LADY WAS A FREQUENT GUEST AT THEIR COTTAGE.

32. RUKIA LOVED THE TEA HOUSE. SHE LOVED ALL THE
DIFFERENT FLAVORS AND HOW SOME COULD MAKE A PERSON
WELL, HOW THEY COULD FOCUS YOUR MIND, AND MOST OF
ALL HOW YOU COULD MAKE FRIENDS OVER A TINY CUP. SHE
AND HER OLDER BROTHER ICHIGO HAD BONDED OVER TEA.

33. HER BROTHER HAD NOT USED THE WISE WOMEN TO
FIND HIS MATCH. HE’D SAID THEY COULD BE WRONG
SOMETIMES, AND AFTER SEEING DAVOS’ PARENTS SHE’D
HAVE TO AGREE. THE WISHING WELL HE SAID WAS
NEVER WRONG, AND SO HE’D GONE TO IT ACROSS TOWN.

34. THE TAVERN MASTER’S DAUGHTER NICOLE WAS TO
BECOME HER SISTER-IN-LAW WHEN ICHIGO CAME OF
AGE. HER LORD FATHER AND MOTHER BOTH MET
THROUGH THE WELL, AND THEY SUPPORT THE MATCH
EVEN IF SHE IS OF LOWER STATION THAN A LORD.

35. TANISHI AND YIDI CHEN WERE NOT THE HIGHEST
RANKING NOBLES IN THE KINGDOM. NEITHER OF
THEM SERVED ON THE KING’S SMALL COUNCIL, BUT
THEY RAN THEIR LANDS WELL. THEIR SERFS ALWAYS
PAID THEIR DUE AND SEEMED HAPPY ENOUGH.

36. THEY ENCOURAGED BOTH THEIR CHILDREN
TO FREQUENT THE LOCAL TEA HOUSE AND
GET TO KNOW THEIR PEOPLE. A GOOD LORD
AND LADY KEPT THEIR PEOPLE HAPPY.

37. OVERALL, LIFE IN CELESTIA WAS GOING WELL. THERE
WERE QUESTIONS STILL LEFT TO BE ANSWERED, BUT
THAT ALL WOULD HAPPEN IN IT’S OWN TIME. FOR
NOW, MOST OF THE KINGDOM WAS CONTENT.