"Today we shall also go over how to heal another." Fauna said

"This sounds useful." Aurora thought. It was a spell that she wanted to learn for a very long time since she had heard about it a few months back.

She gave a smile as Fauna started their lesson on healing, calling her over to a small table for a demonstration. The usual dead looking flower was on it.

"The biggest thing that one should know about healing is forgetting oneself in order to help the other person." Fauna told her. "Like healing a flower you had done so many times."

"Yes." Aurora said, a wave of her hand the flower grew back to life again.

"Ouch! I cut myself!" Fauna suddenly said, Aurora turning to her in surprise. Fauna was clumsy, but not this careless, cutting her finger like she did.

"Here!" Aurora said, grabbing her finger out of the blue. A feint, light blue glow came and the cut disappeared completely.

"Very good Aurora." Fauna told her "You picked that up very quickly."

Aurora smiled. Some things were quicker to pick up than others, and she was glad that this one was one of the easier ones she got.

"I think that is enough for today." Fauna said

"All right." Aurora said, taking her bag and leaving the cottage.

The old path was getting colder and greyer as winter approached upon the country, the leaves turning orange, brown and yellow as they were scattered across her way. All around her just seem dead, even though it was a strange sort of 'sleep', or a half death as it was explained to her by her tutors. An odd thing to go through and something that was pointless to Aurora to go through, yet something that was done wither or not humans liked it happening. Her mind still going to the day that she was allowed to go to the town near the castle a few months ago.

She was happy to be able to go and wanted to go back. Especially since she overheard her parents saying that the outing was quite successful, making her want to jump and sing for joy. Quickening her pace as she remembered that moment, since it was only yesterday that she had overheard that news, only stopping in her tracks when she felt something was wrong.

"Is someone there?" She asked out loud. If there was someone friendly, they would respond to her call, if not; then she may have trouble. "I can feel you there!"

A few moments passed before Aurora decided to go in the direction of where she had felt the trouble arise, climbing as best as she could around the roots that grew nearly wildly around her. Not surprising her since people may have thought there was nothing of importance in this direction, or not needed to go in this direction. What she found at the end of her journey was very surprising. A young deer who had her leg broken was cowering near various large trees.

"Don't be afraid, I won't hurt you." Aurora told the deer in a gentle voice as she approached the deer, hands in front of her as she approached it very carefully. Getting down on one knee, she glanced at the back leg that was broken and put her hands onto the leg. A feint blue glow came from her hands and she felt that the deer's leg getting better and quite fast. "There you go. Are you all right?"

The deer getting up almost instantly, kicking its leg a little, before it started running around the small open area that the two were in very happily. Aurora giving a smile as the deer ran around in glee, the deer eventually running up to Aurora as if it wanted to say something, confusing her a little.

"Th-thank you!" The deer said before running off into the forest, catching Aurora off guard.

She did not know how much time had passed, it much, before she snapped out of her little 'spell' long enough to run back to the path to the castle to go back home. That was the last thing she had expected to happen when she had healed a deer. Or anything really, especially healing a serious leg break for the very first time ever. Knowing even less on how long she was back in this daze that she found herself currently in when she got back to the castle, since the next thing that she knew she was back at her home. Wondering if her parents were worried about her whereabouts since she was normally home much earlier, the bridge going down to let her in and hoping for the best and smiling parents to greet her coming back home.

Breathing a sigh of relief when her parents did not mention anything on her tardiness, telling them about how she was beginning to learn about healing. Thinking back to the deer speaking to her, and if it was a new power that she was getting, or some side effect of her healing spell that she had just learned earlier that day some things that she had considered quite often for the rest of the day. Thinking that she may also continue her healing lessons and practice until Fauna was fully satisfied with her healing abilities. It did feel quite repetitive at times with her lessons, but she understood that some things were meant to be repeated until one fully knows their things well. Maleficent was the same with the things that she had taught Aurora, drilling a lot of the basics that she taught whenever the two had met.

Going to bed, she wondered if she would learn something new, from either the three good fairies, or something from Maleficent. If she will show up at all the next day, since she does come and go as she pleased, having no obligations to teach Aurora anything.

"Rise and shine my dear Princess." A voice came, suddenly waking her up. Not meaning to wake her so suddenly, as the owner of the voice gently opened the curtains.

"It is morning already?" Aurora asked, stretching and getting up. Seeing as it was one of her personal servants, Kayla. One of the newer ones if her information was correct, seeing as how there was some new 'mistakes' as some Princesses and older servants would put it.

"Yes it is, my Princess." Kayla said, opening Aurora's wardrobe, picking out a nice lighter green dress, that had some yellow-gold trim near the bottom of the dress and the sleeves, which was one of her favourites, behind the blue dress with the yellow trim.

Arising from her bed and taking off her night gown from behind the change wall, awaiting help from Kayla to get into her dress. Thinking about it, today was going to be a big day from her father and mother, and the one thing about that is she can join them for her political class, if the timing was right and how private they considered it. The politics class normally being the first thing that she had in the morning. Boring, if practical and has its uses if she was going to be Queen one day.

One of the neighboring kingdoms was supposed to be coming over as well. The king of the kingdom was her father's friend as well and his son and heir were to be her future husband when she comes of age. She had met Prince Philip on occasion when he was brought over with his father on business trips to her kingdom. A handsome and sturdy man who will make a nice husband and future king in her opinion. When she asked her mother about him and how old he was she replied that he was about five years older than her and was going through the same sort of training that she was, since he was heir apparent to his kingdom. And that he enjoyed the occasional hunt and enjoyed more riding through the woods every chance he got.

Hunting for sport was not the first thing that she thought was a hobby that people should do, she had thought when she first heard about it. Although her mother did also tell her that the deer and boar that he hunted with the party he went with did go to those who needed it or went back to the castle, so it would not go to waste.

Going to the strategy room as she did before in the past, her father was there as she had expected, as was her mother, although she was more to the sidelines of the room. The generals in the army were also there, something that raised several red flags in Aurora's mind to nothing good can come of this meeting in any possibility. King Hubert and Prince Philip were also in the room with their army's generals, worrying her even more. And from the sounds of their voices, stress and problems were ever present in the room. She considered herself lucky that she was not booted out of the room once she entered, so she decided to go to her mother and listened to the situation that was unravelling in front of her.

"The kingdom to the south is getting more powerful and arrogant day by day Stefan! I say we strike now and end them before they strike someone first!" King Hubert declared

"I see your point Hubert, but if the both of us strike first it may not look good on us to the other kingdoms. They still had not done anything to harm anyone yet." Stefan told him "I think all we can do now is watch them and see what they do first. Then we have reason to push back at them if what they do is serious."

"That is foolish. By then it would be too late and there will be destruction in their wake when they start their siege on all of the kingdoms standing in their way." Hubert replied

"What kingdom are they talking about?" Aurora whispered to her mother. There were a number of countries to the south.

"The small kingdom of Therios." Her mother replied in a whisper.

She had heard of that. It may have been minor, but it was one that was more known to be the more magical of the kingdoms, having the most witches and warlocks of the rest of the kingdoms, if somewhat ill trained. It was still surprising that they were 'weak', both in magical prowess and influence. If what King Hubert was correct, something is brewing in the kingdom that was a threat to its neighbor, especially Hubert's kingdom of Arialith. And he did have something to worry about if something was brewing from there that was deemed a threat to all.