Once Upon A Time, I awoke in a strange place...
Wyntr's POV
"It was mine, once, Ever After," said a voice behind me.
I turned around and saw a man. A Toy. The Outcast King. He told me how I would find my friend and get home. I would need to find Queen Carolina. She had the key that would unlock the door to my home, free all the hearts that had been stolen from all the Toys in Ever After and free Josh. Carolina kept the Toys locked up in her factory building Toy Soldiers for her army. I set off, in search of the Evil Queen, a way home and my friend Josh Ramsay.
I dreamt I was asleep. I saw Josh standing in a forest clearing, but he wasn't alone. Standing beside him was Queen Carolina. Her beauty was intoxicating. She was telling Josh something I couldn't make out.
When I opened my eyes, they were gone and I was alone. Or so I thought. I spun around to be face to face with a Toy Solider. I turned to run, but I was too slow. He grabbed my arm, pulling me back towards him. Looking at his face in the moonlight, I couldn't help but gasp. The Toy looked just like Ramsay. It couldn't be him.
"Your friend is in trouble, Lady Wyntr," he said to me in a hushed voice. I stopped struggling to get free and looked at him. 'He even sounds like Ramsay. What kind of sick joke is this?' I thought.
"We need to go. Now!"
"Okay! Just let go of my arm." He did. "Thank you."
After walking for what seemed like hours, I couldn't shake the feeling that something terrible was about to happen.
"So, what did you mean when you said Josh was in trouble? What kind of trouble?" I asked the Toy, shivering as the temperature dropped suddenly.
He must have noticed because as he answered my question he took off his jacket and placed it around my shoulders. "The Evil Queen Carolina has your friend under a spell. We fear he may never come out of it and we need your help to get him back on our side."
I looked at him curiously, wondering why he cared so much about finding me. Wait...
"How did you know where I was?" I asked, pulling the jacket tighter around me.
"The King," was all he said. We continued in silence.