I fallowed Prince Jasper through the wood and never found his sister. I followed him to his castle where he instructed all people able to search for his sister. They never found her that night or the next day or the next. I helped till the Prince ordered me to stay at the castle and get some rest he had said before he left this morning that he had questions for me. Prince jasper and his men returned late that night still with no sign of Alice. The prince was in a low that I have not seen sense my father when mother died.

Lost and found

Prince jasper still had men out in the woods looking for his sister but so far they have all come up empty. The prince had invited me to supper. I had refused because I wanted to help look for that little girl and he had refused to let me leave the castle.

At supper the prince asked me a series of questions. "Why were you in the woods without a horse tied to a tree?" was the one he asked more than once. I simply answered "I was ambushed and going to see someone". The prince did not eat but I wolfed all the food on my plate down. When the prince would ask who I was going to see I would tell him my grandmother I could not tell him I was in a hurry to see my dyeing brother that is living in a military school.

June 16, 1857

This morning I planned on going for a walk but jasper told the guards that I was not to go outside because it was a bad day. Weeks have passed sense Alice went missing. Jasper has come to realize that she is gone but he is still angry at himself for not being there. I have not talked or seen my father sense I ran away, I have wondered on many occasions what father was welcomed to when he got home, is he looking for me or did jasper send a messenger to tell him that I was here and he was not to come. I was happy to be without father. I could almost do what I wanted and I got a new dress almost every day. The prince had even found sunset abandoned in the woods.

I went for a walk thru the castle this morning and found a library I was planning to go there for a few hours after lunch. I miss my books so much before I left home I would spend most of my day reading. I walked out of my door and heeded down the hall towards the dining room when a guard ran up to me all out of breath. "Miss King the prince needs you right away". What could jasper need me so urgently for? "Lead me to where the Prince is". The guard grabbed me by the arm and led me to a room that I was told not to go in to at the end of the hall on the east wing.

The guard pushed me through the door and left. The prince was sitting on the side of the bed. I looked at what laid beyond him in the bed it was the little girl. Jasper saw that I had froze at the door and came over to take my hand and lead me to the bed where his sister was laying unconscious. Jasper turned to when we reached the bed "do you know how to help her'. I looked at the fragile little girl in the bed who looked so sick. "I think I can help her but aren't you going to call for a doctor". He looked at me with the saddest eyes that I have ever seen "The doctor is away and you said once that you took care of your mother when she was sick". "Yes I took care of my mother but I she died in the end". Jasper turned back to his sister "I trust you. Please just do what you can till the doctor gets back". I turned to Alice. I pulled down the covers to see that her body was covered in bruises. My hand lightly went over her leg that looked broken and sure enough it was. Still looking at Alice "I need some cloth torn in to ribbons and two straight sticks of wood". Jasper looked at me "Just do it jasper" he did as I said and went and got the things that I needed I splinted her leg and washed her. I had jasper leave, I told him to go eat a good meal and sleep a good sleep.

I must have fallen asleep because I was awoken by something moving me. I did not wake up enough to know what was going on but I knew that I was being moved. When I woke up the next morning I was in a room that I have never seen. When I was put in to this room they must have thought that I was cold because I had a velvet coat around me. I got out of the bed when Jaspers nurse walked in "Where am I" I asked her "and how did I get here" she came over to me and handed me a towel "The prince brought you here Miss he thought that you would be more comfortable here than on the couch in the princesses room". The nurse walked away but before she left the room she turned around and asked if I needed anything. I said no and she left.

I washed my face and left the towel some where the nurse would see it. I walked out the door in to the blue wing which was next to the east wing. I walked down the hall to the princess's room. I opened the door as quietly as I could. I looked in and saw that jasper was sitting next to his sister in a red velvet chair. I walked over to stand next to him. "How is she" I asked.

"She looks better. How did you sleep."
"Well. Thank you"
"You can keep that jacket for further use if you'd like you were shivering last night when I put you into my room". I had forgotten that I had the jacket on. "Thank you" I said. Alice looked much better this morning. I pulled up a chair to sit next to the prince. We sat there for what seemed like forever. The nurse brought us in lunch and supper. I had no clue what time it was but I was growing tired. I had not noticed till I tried to yawn that jasper and I were holding hands. I did not want that moment to end but it did when Alice opened her eyes. She looked around and then her eyes fell on jasper. "How did you find me". Jasper let go f my hand and ran over to his sister. He hugged her and started to cry "it wasn't easy Alice. It wasn't easy". Jasper pulled back so that he could look at his sister. "This is the lady you found in the woods" he turned and put out his hand. I went over and put my hand in his. He gently squeezed my hand.

Alice looked up at me "did you save rose". Jasper answered for me "she is in her stall". "May I go see her brother". Jasper was lost for words which meant it was my turn to answer her "When you fever is gone little Miss". She started to tear up and that is when I pulled my hand from jaspers and left the room.

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