I was sitting in the living room, waiting to see where Her Highness wanted to go today.

- Good morning, Your Highness," I said, bowing.

- Good morning," the princess and the girls accompanying her curtsied.

- Where does Your Highness wish to go today?

- You can mind your own business today, I wasted your time yesterday.

Your sister told me everything!

- Oh, I'm sorry about my sister. I hope she or I didn't insult you.

- No, she told me you grow something, but it's a secret. I was wondering what it was. Unless, of course, it's under a veil of secrecy?

- It's not even a secret, I just wanted to keep it under wraps for a while. All in good time, as they say.

- Well, now I'm even more eager to know what it is... Well, you may go, I have plans to walk around the village today and meet the elders and have tea with your family, and your elder sister has volunteered to accompany me.

- Thank you very much, Your Highness.

I headed towards the vineyard where my younger sister was waiting for me.

- Took you long enough, little brother. Where's the thank you?

- What are you talking about? - pretending I didn't know what she was talking about, I decided to piss her off.

- How?! I'm the reason you're here! - Sis puffed up her cheeks and crossed her arms over her chest.

- Thank you so much, sister!

- I wish I could say that right away," said my little sister with a proud smile.

- I told my friends that the next picking is in 4 days, your plant is already legendary. While they were picking, they ate a lot of your berries.

- I've decided to call it a grape.

- Grapes, bro, that's easier than lilac ivy, and I think it's nicer to say.

- What are you gonna do with all those grapes?

- Oh, it's gonna be something great!

- Well, I wouldn't expect anything less from you.

- Fool," I said, stroking my sister's head.

- You're the fool! - how cute it is when she frowns.

- Good morning. Am I interrupting you again? - I turned around and saw her, it was the girl I kept bumping into.

- Hi. Hi. Hello.

- Am I disturbing you?

- Of course you're not interrupting!

- That's good, I never introduced myself. My name is Isabella, but you can call me Bella.

Isabella... Everything about her was beautiful: her hair was long and lush, bright red, her face like an angel's, her brown eyes, and her name... like my favorite grape in my world.

- Nice to meet you, you know my name-- Will. I thought you were staying close to the princess?

- The princess gave me the day off.

- And here I thought the princess had sent a spy.

- Hee-hee-hee-hee-hee, you're partly right, and I was wondering why you were so distant yesterday. Most of the time, princesses try to please, behave very kindly, and you couldn't say that about you. It's the first time we've seen such a thing.

- It's just like I said yesterday, I've never had to meet nobles... And I guess I don't have the necessary skill for that, I'll try to improve myself in the future.

- Hee-hee, that's what I expected. I'm sorry, I was just kidding, I wanted to see your reaction.

No fucking joke!

- Mm-hmm...brother talking to a girl.....

- Sis, she just walked up and I think she wants to tell my secret.

- What's the truth? He won't even tell me, his favorite sister.

- And when did you become your favorite sister?

- When I was born, or at least when I have your back.

- Well, dear sister at the most. Considering how much you asked for help...

- No, I won't help you anymore, pick your own grapes!

- Grapes?

- Yeah, my brother grows a berry and he named it the lilac sunset grape. Oh, I'm sorry, bro.

- It's the first time I've ever heard of such a berry.

- All right, I'll tell you, but I hope you'll keep it a secret for the time being. Or at least that no one else knows but you and the princess.

- I promise you that no one will know but me and the princess.

- Good...

- And you, sister, I hope you won't tell anyone else!

Sis said with a slightly guilty face because she had said too much: - I promise!

I opened the door of the hut and we went inside, taking a bunch of grapes from the basket, I plucked a couple of berries and handed them to Bella.

- What's this?

- It's a berry I cultivated and called a grape. You taste it.

Bela sat down one berry.  Closing her eyes in pleasure, she made an extended sound (mmmm) and a blush appeared on her angelic face.

- Oh, how delicious it is! What a bright and sweet flavor! And juicy! It's marvelous, I've never tasted anything like it. Oh, I'm sorry! Very nice and juicy flavor, I tried different berries, they were mostly either tasteless or sour, well, or slightly sweet, but this is no comparison! Now I understand why you keep it all under wraps, a berry like this could blow up the market!

- I'm glad you like it, but it's just one of the stepping stones to what I want to create.

- What? What could be better than this?

- Wine.

- Wine, well, as I hear this abbreviated word for grapes, what is wine?

- I can't explain it to you right away, but I'll try to show you, I could use your help.

I went to the jaw crusher to adjust it so that it would crumple and tear the grapes, but not crush the seeds. Securing it over the wooden tub and taking the first basket of grapes, I loaded a berry into the top and started turning the crank.

Juice began to flow into the tub and crushed grapes began to fall.

- Is that wine?

- No, right now I'm processing the grapes into a pulp. That is, I break the integrity of the berries without crushing the skin or damaging the pith. After this process, we pour the resulting mass into the barrel, separating the ridges if possible ...

"Favor here the ridges are large and easily separated from the berries, but we need to draw a blueprint of the ridge-separator and send it to the dwarf."

- .... After that we need to cover our barrels with lids, which I have modernized and now they cover the barrels very tightly. At the top I installed a hose-like tube, which I made from a plant that grows in wild forests.

"I don't know the name and I found it with my gift, but I can't say."

- On top of it I put a water seal, that is a tube placed in a container of water, in order to be able to observe the fermentation and to keep air and microorganisms out of the wort. Now the fermentation process will start inside and about 4 times a day I have to stir the wort for 5-6 days.

- I have the process roughly figured out and still a lot of new words for me.

- Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to stump you.

- That's okay, I'm always happy to learn new things. But why let the grapes spoil, as I know if food or vegetables stand for a long time, they spoil, and you purposely let it happen!

- Oh, I forgot to explain. On any berry or fruit live fungal microorganisms - yeast. They will turn the berries that we have processed first into pulp and then into wine.

- Well, our parents and teachers told us that we should wash fruits and vegetables to avoid poisoning, but I have not heard that they help.

- It's called fermentation, and the yeast eat the sugar and produce alcohol.

- If I knew what that was.

"Well knowing from past lives, most wine drinkers are the female half of humanity."

- I think you'll like it when it's ready.

- I'll be looking forward to it!

Over processing and talking we didn't notice how we had processed all the grapes, the automation of the dwarf with crystals helped a lot, which sped up our work a lot.

"Eh still wish I could automate the loading of the grapes... eh dreams... but I don't want to turn into a mediocre wine factory...."

The three of us sat outside the hut and watched the setting sun.

- Oh, I'm so tired, and you wanted to do it all alone, bro.

- That's right! On my own, I wouldn't be done until a couple days later.

- Thank you so much, Sis and Mrs. Bela!

- It was my pleasure to help you and I had a lot of fun.

- You're welcome, bro!

Going back into the barracks, I took out a couple of containers like bottles of grape juice, which I had dipped into cold water beforehand, and some grapes for the princess and Lady Bela. Putting everything in a small basket, I went back.

- Here you go for you and the princess, I suggest you drink this juice right away while it's cool, and some grapes.

- Is this payoff to keep your secret?

- Actually...it's from the heart, but I hope you keep your promise.

- What about me, little brother?

- And grapes for you, here!

- And the juice?

- You don't deserve juice! You know why!

Kpkrpk ...I got a kick in the butt, taking the grapes sis with puffed up cheeks and an eccentric gait headed towards the estate.

- Uh, should I give her one bottle of juice?

- Oh, don't worry, she's just taking offense, she'll be fine in a couple minutes, and she's got plenty of grapes.

- That's good. It's nice to watch a brother and sister when you get along like that. My older brother never kept in touch with me, never even noticed me. I also have a younger brother and sister, I see them very rarely only when the princess comes to the kingdom from her studies, as I accompany her.

- It must be hard for you to be away from home like this?

- Sometimes I miss my family and sometimes I don't. My dad and mom are always busy, even when I visit, they don't care about me. From the outside, your family is very close-knit.

- I don't really talk to my brothers, and my older sister rarely, only my younger sister and my parents most of the time.  You should talk to your parents when you get a chance.

- Okay, I'll try.

The last rays of the sun disappeared over the horizon and Bella and I slowly walked towards the estate.

****

We said good night to each other and went to our rooms. I fell into bed exhausted. It was tired, but very pleasant. I realized that I was slowly starting to move towards my dream and these were the first steps. If it wasn't for my little sister and Bella, I wouldn't have finished recycling until a couple days later.

"Isabella"-thinking of her made the blood rush to my face and threw me into a fever.

Now all my thoughts were about her: how we talked, laughed, worked.

I didn't fall asleep until the morning.....