Third POV

After everyone met a small amount of villagers, they walked around the village to introduce themselves to the others. Esteban walked next to Lorenzo and the other woman while Elena bonded with Antonio and Anita. Lorenzo turned his head to Esteban and asked him a question; "Do you know how long you will be staying here for?" Esteban turned his gaze to Lorenzo, "I'm not entirely sure, but I think we'll be staying for about a month, but considering how curious Elena is, we'll probably be staying for a couple more weeks." Lorenzo hummed in response to him; "That's good, because we were wondering if you would all still be here for the ball." The older woman answered happily. Esteban nodded and reassured them that they probably will stay long enough. "Oh wait! I probably haven't fully introduced myself yet, but my name is Lorenzo, and this is my wife Lucinda." He gestures to the woman next to him. Lucinda smiles softly and waves at him, "Hello." Esteban smiles and returns her gesture. 

Switch

I switched my gaze quickly to Antonio and back to Lorenzo, they looked pretty similar. "By any chance, are you related to Antonio?" Lorenzo and Lucinda both nod at me, "Why yes, in fact Antonio is our son and he is very close with Anita." Lucinda replied to my question, Lorenzo later added in; "They have a sibling relationship, and might I tell you even though he looks about in his 40s, he's actually 23." I was surprised at this which almost made me trip on my own feet. "Really? How is that possible?" Lorenzo chuckled a bit, "Well it's a funny story, when he was younger, I had a full beard at that time and he thought beards were cool. So he asked me when he could grow a beard, I jokingly told him when you start to stress yourself to high levels." Lucinda chuckled and added in as well, "But he took that seriously and began stressing himself on purpose at the age of 18, and he started growing gray hairs as well which had terrified us, but once he grew a full beard at 21, he excitedly told us he finally grew it, so now he has a full beard just like Lorenzo." They snorted a bit and laughed at the memory. "Are you talking about my beard story again!? If you are, please don't it's embarrassing." I heard Antonio yell behind his shoulder. I see him put his face in his hands while Anita laughed at his reaction and patted his back. I chuckled and smiled at when Anita laughed as well, just something about her laugh makes my heart skip a beat. 

Time skip

Once we finished meeting everyone else, we walked back to the carriages to take us back to the palace. I was walking with Elena until I saw her slightly smile and walk a bit faster, I was confused at this until I heard Anita behind me. "So I'm guessing Lorenzo told you the story?" I felt myself slightly stiffen but quickly shook it off, I cleared my throat and answered her question. "Of course, it is quite humorous, I just didn't know that he is in his 20s." She hummed in response. "Everyone assumes that he's older than me when in reality I'm 25 years older than him which surprises them." She's older than him? She looks incredibly youthful in appearance, but she knows how to take care of herself. My eyes slightly widened but Anita had noticed this and giggles slightly, "It's okay if you're surprised by this, this isn't the first time this has happened." I felt embarrassed when she caught me, my face became a bit warm after her giggle. I was about to tell her something until we reached the carriages and boarded them, I went in with my family while Anita went with the others. The carriages take us back to the palace where we see Marcela and Nikolas waiting outside for us, seeing him waiting had probably meant that he prepared another meal for us.