The Morning Star Baby Wants a Family - Chapter 66

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Chapter 66
They were kind and attentive.
Only, their care had perhaps exceeded all reasonable bounds.
Five or six Attendants clustered around Hae-na, bathing her as though she were a newborn babe.
“We shall wash your hair, Miss.”
“Please wait a moment. We will change the bathwater.”
“Your skin appears delicate, so we shall be gentle. Please tell us if it causes you pain.”
Each touch was so careful and tender that I found myself breaking out in hives.
Even at the Yul Family Residence, Chung-yeon had always bathed me with great devotion, yet never had I been treated with such overwhelming courtesy.
Unable to endure such lavish attention, I glanced toward Seowan beyond the screen, but she merely turned her head away without a word.
“We shall lift your right arm for a moment.”
“Is the water temperature acceptable? Please tell us if it is too hot or too cold.”
“We shall wash your arm. Please relax.”
Seowan, who bore an injury to her right shoulder, received even more cautious treatment than I did.
When I stole a glance at her face, it was darker than I had ever seen it.
Swallowing my complaints, I obediently surrendered myself to their care.
After the bath, the Attendants dressed me in layers of thin garments, dried my hair which had been anointed with fragrant oil until it gleamed, combed it smooth, and then withdrew.
Merely attending to a bath had left my entire body utterly exhausted.
Rousing my drowsy frame with effort, I settled onto the bedchamber’s edge.
“Still, it was not entirely unpleasant…”
My stifled body felt reborn and pristine, and above all, I had confirmed the state of my sister’s wound.
When the bath ended and the Attendants began dressing me, I caught a glimpse beyond the screen.
The sound was too rough to be mere fabric brushing.
Certain it was bandages, I dashed beyond the screen.
Seowan had her back turned, and through this, her shoulder lay exposed—mottled with bruises and internal injuries.
“Sister. You must truly be careful until it heals.”
Recalling that moment when I had cried out in alarm, I spoke with grave urgency.
Yet my bright face was heavy with drowsiness.
Seowan laughed softly.
“Yes. It is fortunate you have no need to be careful.”
When I saw Hae-na leap toward me beyond the screen, I too was startled.
Water still pooled on the floor. Should she misstep and fall, it would be dire.
Moreover, this was a child who had lain motionless for four days and had only just risen.
Yet Hae-na neither stumbled nor grew dizzy—she merely squeaked at the sight of me.
Furthermore, her small frame, clad hastily in a single thin undergarment, bore not a single scratch or blemish.
Unlike Hae-na, who had turned ashen upon seeing me, I exhaled a breath of relief.
I had feared that her sudden loss of consciousness, combined with the impact of the fall in the Moonstone Cave, might have caused internal injuries.
“What a blessing.”
I smiled gently. In that moment, a luminous aura materialized beside her.
It trembled like dawn mist, shimmering softly.
The moment Hae-na fixed her gaze upon him, a luminous sphere burst forth from her palm with a soft pop.
A sphere of light the size of an adult’s fist danced and bobbed around Hae-na in lazy circles.
Hae-na instinctively understood how to command it.
The very thing she had accidentally conjured before Cheon-eul.
And by any measure, it was far from an ordinary occurrence.
“Sister.”
Hae-na called out to Seowan with careful hesitation.
She, who had been gazing idly out the window, turned her head at once.
“Since we emerged from the cave, I’ve noticed something has changed about me….”
At her soft murmur, Seowan’s eyes shifted with sudden intensity.
Even Cheon-eul set down Dawan and turned to regard me.
Beneath such concentrated attention, I felt a flutter of embarrassment.
Hae-na hesitantly brought her hand beneath the sphere of light that orbited her.
“I, I’ve become able to do things like this.”
Before the words had fully left her lips, the sphere of light transformed into a perfect droplet of water.
“Oh!”
Hae-na gasped in wonder despite herself.
Though she had suspected it might be possible, witnessing it actually happen was extraordinary.
Hae-na gazed intently at the water droplet hovering above her small palm, then extended her other hand.
As she tilted her hand, the droplet rolled smoothly through the air toward her opposite palm.
Splash.
The sensation was like touching the surface of still water.
Even when she tapped the droplet with her fingertips, its form did not collapse.
Because Hae-na was maintaining its spherical shape through sheer will.
‘Can I do this as well?’
After toying with the droplet a few times, another thought occurred to her.
The hovering droplet stretched thin and elongated.
The ribbon of water undulated gracefully through the air before beginning to tie itself into delicate knots.
‘I can control this however I wish.’
I could make it larger, scatter it into fine mist, reshape it at will….
With eyes gleaming, Hae-na gathered the knotted water back into a perfect sphere.
Through the transparent droplet, she could see Seowan’s astonished expression.
“Oh.”
The moment Hae-na’s concentration wavered, the spherical droplet burst with a splash.
“Ah!”
Hae-na squeezed her eyes shut. The clothes the Attendants had dressed her in were now thoroughly soaked.
Seowan approached without a word and placed her hand upon the fabric, and the dampness evaporated instantly.
Seowan asked quietly.
“Is this all you can do?”
Her voice was calm and measured.
Glancing at Cheon-eul, Hae-na shook her head firmly.
“This too….”
At the same moment, a gentle breeze coiled around both their bodies and vanished.
The instant Seowan witnessed it, her face hardened like stone.
She stared at the child with an expression of alarm.
Not only could she interfere with the power of Celestial Beings, but she could wield that same force with equal mastery.
‘This is an impossible power.’
Among the forbidden arts of Oseo Kingdom, there were rumors of sorcery that could steal the spiritual force of Celestial Beings.
Yet forbidden arts demanded a terrible price, and even if one succeeded in stealing such power, it would impose an enormous burden upon the caster.
‘But this….’
Hae-na wielded the spiritual force of stars that had not chosen her as though it were nothing.
And not merely any stars—the power of two of the heavens’ most exalted.
The revelation that she was the first Celestial Being of the moon would be extraordinary enough, but if it became known that she had wielded the power of Geomun and Pagun Seongggun….
Then a chill swept across the nape of Seowan’s neck.
Startled, she turned, only to find Cheon-eul gazing at her with a gentle smile.
He gestured subtly toward something.
Turning back, Hae-na was looking up at Seowan with an anxious expression.
“I, I won’t do it again from now on. So please don’t be angry.”
The child’s voice trembled with fear.
Seowan quickly softened her expression and gently wrapped her arms around Hae-na’s shoulders.
“I’m not blaming you. I was simply startled. Forgive me for frightening you.”
At her tender words, Hae-na’s face gradually brightened.
The child’s gaze, fixed upon her, seemed to ask if she might do it again.
“And also….”
When Seowan offered a reassuring smile, Hae-na blinked her large eyes and spoke.
“The power that you and Cheon-eul possess feels exactly the same.”
Seowan tilted her head slightly.
“Do you mean that light I mentioned before?”
Hae-na had once said that the light dwelling in Seowan’s heart was also visible to Cheon-eul.
“Yes. Back then I thought they were merely similar, but now….”
Hae-na closed and opened her eyes.
The light that enveloped both their bodies was entirely identical.
And it was the same as the light that had permeated Hae-na herself.
“They’re the same. I’m certain of it.”
Hae-na nodded with conviction.
Yet her certainty was fleeting, and the child fell into contemplation.
‘Why is that…?’
When Hae-na first witnessed the light roiling from Seowan’s body, she had believed it to be the light of Tamlang Seongggun.
But the spiritual essence Hae-na now possessed was moonlight—the lunar force dwelling within the moonstones of the Moonstone Cave.
‘Yet I was told that Celestial Beings are opposed to moonlight.’
But why do Seowan and Cheon-eul possess the exact same energy that I do?

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