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Sleeping Anne
Chapter 2
For sixteen years Katherine, Jane, and Mary raised the young princess in their cottage in the woods. They renamed the princess Annie. Annie grew up to be a kind and beautiful young woman. She had dark hair and blue eyes. The fairies spent sixteen years without using any magic to help them. On the day of Annie sixteenth birthday Katherine, Jane, and Mary decided to plan Annie's sixteenth birthday.
"Annie" Katherine called.
"Yes Aunt Katherine" Annie replied as she came down the stairs from her room.
"We need you to pick berries" Katherine told her.
"But I picked berries yesterday" Annie protested
"Well we need more dear" Jane told her and gave Annie a basket and her shawl.
"Off you go dear and don't talk to strangers" Mary replied.
As Annie left to go pick berries. Katherine, Jane, and Mary stood around the window wondering if Annie suspected they were up to something.
"Do you think she suspects were up to something" Jane asked them.
"No" replied Katherine and Mary in unison.
"So here is the plan Jane and I will make the dress and then you Mary will be in charge of making the cake" Katherine said.
"I'll go get the wands" Jane said as she went to get the wands out of their hiding place.
"No magic" Katherine ordered.
"Why not the sixteen years are almost up" Jane protested.
"Yes I know but I don't want to take the risk if Margaret decided to show up" Katherine told her.
"And it would also be a gift from the heart" Mary added on.
Meanwhile in the Margaret Beaufort's lair in the forbidden forest she was angry because for the last sixteen years she had no luck for finding Princess Anne. Her anger was making the lackeys who were in the room with her very nervous.
"Sixteen years and not a trace of her. She couldn't have just disappeared into thin air!" Margaret exclaimed.
"We have searched everywhere" said one of her lackeys.
"Are you sure you have searched everywhere?" Margaret asked.
"Yes. We have searched the towns, houses, nunneries, and every cradle" replied her lackey.
"Cradle!" Margaret exclaimed.
"Yes every cradle" replied the lackey.
Margaret sat down in her chair. So for the past sixteen years her lackeys spent looking for a baby. What idiots they were and they were her most trusted lackeys. Margaret looked over at the hawk Feather who was perched on the arm of her chair.
"Did you hear that my pet? All these years they have been looking for a baby" Margaret told Feather and then she burst out into a random fit of laughter.
Her lackeys who noticed that that she had started laughing out of nowhere decided to laugh with her. Margaret then stopped laughing and her eyes were dark with fury.
"FOOLS, IDIOTS, IMBOSOLES LEAVE NOW!" Margaret screamed.
The lackeys all retreated from the room after the threat from their mistress. Margaret was in distress. She sat back in her chair and looked over at her hawk Feather. Margaret motioned him to come and her perched on her arm.
"My pet you are my last choice. Search high and low for a maiden of sixteen years. With lips red as the rose and hair dark as chocolate. Now go" Margaret told the hawk.
Feather then flew off and went out the window. Margaret watched him as he flew out the window.
"And do not fail me" She said after he left.
Meanwhile in the woods Annie was picking berries. Though she wondered why her aunts wanted her out of the cottage. Annie thought that they must be planning something because it was he sixteenth birthday. Annie hoped that one day she would fall in love but she had never even met a man because she was sheltered in the woods.
"I wonder if they want me to fall love" Annie said to herself
Annie then sat down on a log. After she sat down she started daydreaming about her dream prince.
In another part of the woods there was a young man on a horse. This young man was Prince Henry also known as Harry to other people. Son of King Henry VII and Elizabeth of York and the betrothed of the Princess Anne. Prince Henry was a very handsome man. He had dark brown hair and blue eyes. There were many girls in the kingdom who were in love with him and would be happy to be his mistress but Prince Henry had no interest in having mistress. Henry was out in the woods to enjoy his last day of freedom before he was wedded to his betrothed.
Henry hoped that his betrothed was a beautiful young woman who had beautiful dark hair and beautiful blue eyes. Though the only thing he could do was dream and hope that his betrothed was not a ugly old troll. It was cruel to think thoughts like that. Henry was taught by his mother not to judge anyone by their looks.
Henry looked off into the distance in the woods and noticed a young maiden sitting on a log. Henry thought that this maiden was the one he had pictured in his dreams.
"She is indeed the beautiful woman I have pictured from my dreams" Henry said to himself.
After saying that Henry rode off in the direction where the young maiden was hoping he would get a word with her.
And there you have it Chapter 2 of Sleeping Anne. Also you should check out my other story Mary Tudor and the Seven Dwarfs. Leave reviews and soon I will have chapter 3. Also after I have this story done I will write. another Tudor Fairy Tale story with Jane Seymour as the Heroine.