* Sound of water falling *
As the water fell on my body my mind was completely disconnected. Among my constant delusions about the plans that I would have in the future, remembering my name left me in an intense shock, if my super memory did not fail me my name was Nicolay Burkhardt son of Nicholas and Katherinne Burkhardt lords of the 'Valley' and one of the noble families largest that exist in the world today.
Currently, there are 12 families with the power to decide the future of the world, the 7 royal families, and the 5 noble families. This honestly made me very similar to Game of Thrones except that the King's crown could only be contested by the royal families and even then the King would not have total freedom to order what he wants. To make important decisions there is the Council of 12, which are all the lords of the royals and the nobles.
That's good at least, the last thing I wanted was a Robert Baratheon to deal with in my new life, as I remember the names of those families are.
Kronenberg House.
d'eLorena House.
Lascelles House.
Dreyer House.
Fullher House.
Liechtenstein House.
Stratorsa House.
The 7 houses inhabit the capital of the kingdom, and among them, the King is selected. I can only imagine the nest of vipers that is the capital will definitely be a thorn in my side but still, they will not be able to stop me ... I hope.
Anyway, continuing with the noble houses these by law are one level below the real ones. Although it is only for saying that my house is an exemption to the subject, I do not fully understand why but eventually I will know the 5 noble houses are.
The Burkhardt House.
Stark House.
D'Orne House.
Morndmet House.
Von Creed House.
Again it may be a coincidence but 3 of the noble houses have similarities with Game of Thrones is something fascinating certainly and the fact that the Starks had their headquarters in the north where the cold climate predominates most of the year makes me laugh, maybe has to do with anyone who sent me here after all Grimm and Game of Thrones are my two favorite series.
Geographically speaking, the positions where the noble houses reside are widely separated from each other, different from the real ones that are stationed in the center of the kingdom, that is, the capital. The noble houses are separated from it, for example, the Burkhardt's are in the Valley, a huge mountain range surrounded by beautiful vegetation and wide tropical forests for this fact we are the largest house.
In the north, as I mentioned before, there are the Starks from what I can tell my father has a good relationship with the lord of the house something like old friends.
The D'Orne inhabit the south, I don't have much information about them as they tend to be very reserved, and all I know so far is from books but I imagine them as the Martells from Game of Thrones.
In the East the Morndmets the only information I have is that they are very loyal and strong-bodied.
And finally the Von Creed in the west the most miserable house that can exist. According to my mother they act without scruples or conscience crazy sons of bitches who love torture and rape a rare combination between the iron born and the Boltons from Game of Thrones. I can still hear my mother warning me never to make friends with those people.
Logically, under the noble houses, there are many other subordinates or standard-bearers whatever they want to call them. We can say that they are semi-noble they do not have the power and resources of the nobles but they still have more than enough to live comfortably the rest of their lives.
And at the bottom of the food chain are commoners, people who work to eat and even then sometimes it is not enough for them. Nobles die constantly for many things and the royals do not seem to care about anything, in this world where the laws are centuries from being born, life is the survival of the strongest. Even we, even though it pains me to admit it under our mandate in the valley, things are the same as elsewhere, with the commoners forming something that planned to change that is a waste of manpower.
A sigh leaves my lips as I finished drying my wet body from the shower, something that I have to thank the person or being who brought me is that this world is similar to one of the series both literary and television that I like the most. I just hope there is no dragon around here, or if there were it would be very exciting.
After putting on the simple clothes consisting of wool pants and a simple short-sleeved shirt I walked through the corridors of the fortress, in simple terms the fortress in the valley is practically a medieval castle. The beauty of the place cannot be explained with simple words as I walked through the corridors I found myself, you must at times, maids and other personnel of the place when they saw me they seemed to see the king himself because of how I laughed Giddy they got on, bowing until it got out of their point of view, it's a strange feeling but not to the extreme of annoying it felt pretty good.
Upon reaching the dining room, I could glimpse a beautiful room full of prints on the walls. A large table in the center and hundreds of more to one side maids walking from one side to the other bringing dinner and in the center of all my parents sitting waiting for me. I smiled slightly as I went over to take an accent.
"Mother father," I said hello to my parents as I settled in.
"Nicky, how are you feeling?"
I could see how after my greeting my mother smiled like a beautiful flower and my father just nodded solemnly. After my mother asked about my health it seemed that she was still worried after all.
"I'm better than ever mother."
My answer seemed to satisfy her since her smile never left her lips. Shortly after the servants finished bringing the food, it seemed honest, I expected something else but the food looks very good, even though everything is mainly meat and stews are very limited at this time, something else that I would have to work on overtime.
Dinner was enjoyable, between talks mainly my mother and I with some responses from my father occasionally. It was a united family despite everything, I am their only child, they still tried to have more in the end mother could not get pregnant, I suppose that is why she is very overprotective.
In the quiet family atmosphere, the thorn in my brain did not let me pass the subject. It was impossible to do it when I found out one thing about my last name and only one thing came to mind: the last name of the protagonist of the Grimm series, apart from our names, even though they were not similar, they were related, every time I thought about this my heart would pound and my breathing failed me, all the tests indicated a percentage of 70% that yes, but I did not want to draw crazy conclusions without sense I needed information.
Looking at my parents, I tried to look more would be that I could find "Mother, Father I would like to ask something."
That seemed to get her attention because Father immediately answered me.
"Question."
Crying out my altered feelings, I looked at both of them and asked the question that would give me the concrete answer to my doubts.
"What is a Grimm?"
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Total silence.
It was several seconds, but it seemed like hours in which my parents froze. At one point the sound of the fork that my mother uses was heard falling onto the plate, her gaze was one of disbelief and surprise. Incredibly, it is the first time I have seen a look other than the stoic one my father always uses.
"H-honey where did you hear that word?"
Looking at my mother's reaction the question was answered, I had to fight the urge to laugh like a crazy movie villain.
"Um ... well no one told me, I dreamed of that before I woke up a few hours ago."
Try to sound as innocent as possible.
"Explain your dream."
This time it was my father's turn to ask, I can tell by their look that they believed what I said.
"Well ... the dream itself was very strange, I spent it all the time in a completely dark place. But unlike what I could see, I could hear strange screams they weren't from people ... It was something different I don't know what but it seemed like something I wouldn't want to see in person, I thought they would never shut up I was panicking but suddenly they shut up, out of nowhere they stopped screaming and instead a voice spoke. " I paused dramatically as I looked into their eyes.
"That voice ... It was weird, very weird. I wouldn't know how to describe it but it sounded ancient. How I feel voices mixed speaking at the same time ..." When I finished speaking, I lowered my gaze a little making myself seem very thoughtful.
Even though my eyes never left my parents' shocked faces, they looked at each other for a few lost seconds until my mother looked at me again.
"The voice ... what did Nicky say to you?"
I looked up again and said in a mysterious tone.
"... Time to wake up my descendant."