Chapter 1
The girl skipped off, singing gaily as her father watched her from behind a barred window. He sighed as memories flooded his mind…
"How DARE you!" the dark fairy screeched. "GIVE ME THE CHILD!"
The queen shook her head defiantly, stumbling backwards, the child grasped tight in her arms. Fear passed across her face, but still she held fast.
The fairy shrieked in anger. An unseen force rippled from her hand to the new mother, and she crumpled to the floor. The baby fell from her arms and started to cry.
He stepped in front of the two of them as nursemaids rushed to the fallen woman. "Peace," he said. "You have hurt my wife. Now, you have no right to take my child."
The fairy's face twisted in a sneer. "Very well," she said. "But you shall pay for this, human. The next time I see you or the child… You will feel better off dead." With that, she disappeared in a flash of blinding light.
The girl's mother had died. Now, only Ruen was left, a merry, golden haired maiden of sixteen. This was the first time she had left the castle for sixteen years. In a desperate attempt to protect her, he had kept her hidden… until now.
Let her go, a hidden voice compelled. No harm could come to her, just this once…
She had looked at him with those beautiful blue eyes, pleading, begging, melting his heart…
So he had agreed.
And now… was he pleased with it? The joy of seeing her smile was not enough to cover up the sense of foreboding that had washed over him when he had nodded his agreement. But then… when he saw her running off into the wilderness all alone for the first time, an irrepressible wave of sadness had washed over him. As if… as if something bad was going to happen, but he knew he couldn't stop it. At the same time, he might had confused it with the sadness of his child growing up…
He dismissed these thoughts from his mind quickly. Superstition, just superstition… he reminded himself. Then he went back to the study to do the accounts.
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