Sofia was in the castle, talking to Clover, when her amulet began to glow.
"That's strange," said Sofia. "I don't need a princess to help me right now."
Suddenly, Sofia disappeared!
Clover cried, "Princess Sofia!"
Sofia appeared in a dark place. She looked around, startled. How did she get here? She looked at her amulet, which was faintly glowing. Why had it taken her here?
She blinked as her eyes slowly got used to the darkness. She saw a window, which had wooden shudders that were closed. Some light might help her figure out why she was here. She pushed open the window. It took a lot of force, but she finally got it open.
To her surprise, it was dark outside too... and a long way down. She leaned over the windowsill and felt a bit dizzy.
Suddenly, she was aware of a feeling on the back of her neck. Too late, she realized that it was her amulet coming loose. It started falling, and she reached out to catch it. But the motion made her almost fall out the window! She put her hands to the windowsill instinctively to catch herself, and the amulet fell past her reach.
"My amulet!" cried Sofia as it plummeted to the ground far below. It landed on a rock, glittering in the moonlight.
Sofia frantically looked for ways to get to it, but there seemed to be no way out of this place, and she couldn't just climb down the slippery rocks the place was made of, she would surely fall.
Then she looked around inside. Maybe there were some stairs or a ladder to get down. But there was nothing in the small, circular room she could use to get to the ground.
She did notice a circular stairway, but it lead upwards. Nevertheless, she decided to climb it.
She noticed two rooms upstairs. The door was open to one, and Sofia went in. There was a bed and dresser, but nothing more that would be useful to her. But she wondered, did someone live here? How did they get down?
She went over to the other room and quietly opened the door. To her surprise, there was a girl sleeping on a bed in there! She very silently looked around the room, but there wasn't anything there, and she didn't want the girl to wake up. So she crept out of the room and went down the stairs to the round room.
Sofia sat down on the floor, her large dress spread around her. She had no idea what she could do. Here she was, trapped in a strange, very high off the ground place, without her amulet. She only hoped that nobody would take the amulet from where it had fallen.
She went to the window again and looked out. The place, which she had figured out was a tower, was in a secluded valley with no way to get out without climbing the mountains, it seemed. She looked down at her amulet, glittering on the rock. Maybe nobody would come, but what if that wasn't the case? She decided to sit there and watch her amulet to make sure no one would take it.
