While her feelings were transfixed between Ivan's state and the fact she had unknowingly ventured into his past, his memories seemed to shift, and with an erratic blur of movements, it was daytime.
The dark-haired boy could be seen running along the hallway to the spiraling stairs, his face beaming with excitement as the result of his royal examination just came out, and the first person he seemed eager to show the result to was his Father.
Since he couldn't awaken his vampiric senses, he had been trying in other ways to make himself useful for his Father. He had sacrificed his sleep, his time, almost to the point that he could sleep no more, and in the end, his hard work didn't go to waste since he had succeeded in ranking top on his exams. Queen Carina always told him he would never succeed since the royal examination was no joke, he wouldn't deny that the papers made him sweat at first glance, the words were complex, but in the end, he prevailed.