“What dictates the future is not the past, but the present.” {}{}{} While the people in the throne room are engaging in a chaotic discussion, the queens who has left them are currently in the pavilion, sitting across each other with a cup of tea each in front of them. On the contrary of the people inside, the queens outdoors are sitting in silence—not speaking a word, and is simply staring down at their tea. The pavilions are rounded by red roses is quite far from Kalisa Palace. It is located a few meters away from Maharlika and is surrounded by thick, tall, walls full of vines climbing from one direction to another. Sitting in a place underneath the cloudy, winter sky, the tea remains hot, whereas the queens remained as cold as ice. No matter where I go, the scent of my beloved daugh