The sun shone brightly as the Wizard Tower gleamed on that fateful fine spring day. Bettle, the Chief Hermetic Scribe in the Manuscriptorium, was doing his work when he finally decided to break it to Sep; he had to know the truth. If Beetle didn't tell him, who would? How could he allow his best friend to go on living that kind of life? It had to be today. As soon as Beetle was done taking care of the ice tunnels with Foxy, Beetle ran from the Manuscriptorium over to the Wizard Tower.
On the way, Beetle thought about his friend Jenna, the princess of the Castle. Beetle greatly enjoyed being around her than anyone else in the castle and had grown to fancy her. However, Beetle had grown out of that and come to realize that Jenna, being 3 years younger, was far too young for him and that she as the princess of the castle could not at all marry Beetle. Besides, Jenna never even caught on Beetle' nervousness and jitteryness around her when she was younger. To this end, Beetle was able to move on from Jenna and focus on his work-and girls his age.
However, Beetle was not the only one thinking about Jenna. Septimus, ExtraOrdinary Wizard, could in no way concentrate on fixing the Wizard Tower staircase when his thoughts drifted to his adopted sister, Jenna. Although both shared a close friendship, Septimus had always tried to think of themselves only as friends. He was very well aware of the feelings his best friend, Beetle, exhibited toward Jenna. But sometimes, and this was one of those times, Septimus thought if treating Jenna as his sister made perfect sense. It was true he had fell for Jenna when he was only Boy 412. He always cared about her more than anyone else even though he thought many times that he should not associate himself with girls. He saw in her kindness and love and admired that as he never received such feelings growing up. Sep felt that he put those feelings behind himself, but on this day, Septimus soon began to realize that this was not the case. The bottom line, he decided, was that Jenna was not truly his sister and having never grown up with her, she might as well be another Syrah or Rose. Septimus heaved a heavy sigh and finally decided to concentrate on his work rather than Jenna.
As Septimus and Beetle thought about Jenna, Jenna was thinking of only Septimus. Taking a day of rest as Queen, Jenna sat on her bed doodling in her rule book of being a Queen. Jenna nervously drew horses and ponies as she remembered all the years she had spent with Septimus-and the years she did not. When she first met him, Jenna found him both annoying and aggravating. He had nearly sold them out to the Hunter chasing them. However, Jenna's thoughts about the boy changed on the day when he called out her name and they fell in a tunnel. From the day he grabbed her hand, Boy 412 had become a different person always saving her in the nick of time. Boy 412, or now Septimus, was the first to go after her when she was kidnapped by Simon and she returned the favor when he was lost in time. Over the years, Jenna had grown to truly love Septimus and spend long nights thinking about Sep. Although they acted as brother and sisters together, Jenna could not help but think of him as anything but. Jenna always look forward when she would spend her time with him and there was no one else she would rather be with than Septimus. Lost in these thoughts, Jenna had not noticed the ghost of her mother, Cerys, pass through her doors.
"Hello Jenna", she said. "It's time we talked."