I admit that in the past I've been a nasty. They weren't kidding when they called me, well a witch. But you'll find that nowadays I've mended all my ways. Repented, seen the light, and made a switch.
-Jonas Brothers
"Sophie is gone and we have nothing." Corrine muttered. "Except the note which is a riddle. Seriously how does look within and express your soul help. Is she a poet?"
"Corrine she has written in old English. I tried to make it easier to understand." Aramina pointed out. "And to me it makes sense. You and another person are going to break the spell. She says it was her and Andrew who did it by admitting their feelings. So Corrine do you have a secret love?"
The girls were alone in their apartment, the king and Treville suggested there take a break, and Louis needed to reassure the people of France that everything was okay.
"No." Corrine looked away bashful, Sophie was similar to Corrine, Andrew was Louis.
"Really, perhaps Louis is your Andrew." Viveca smiled, she was grooming her feathers when she overheard her two friends discussing the letter.
"Unlike Andrew, Louis doesn't love me that way. He sees me as his sister, that's not the type of love that will break the spell. Soul mates remember, and I and Louis aren't anything like that."
Aramina raised an eyebrow, "You sure?" She raised her wings in a questioning gesture. "When I saw her he fell in love, and she smiled because she knew-Shakespeare once said." She quoted from one of the many books she owned by his author.
"Aramina, stop we can't be sure that Louis loves Corrine that way but it is fairly obvious he does." Renee looked up from her book, "If Sophie admitting her feelings to Andrew broke the spell, than you telling Louis should work too."
"But what if I did tell him, and he rejects that idea our friendship would be ruined and I couldn't deal with that." Corrine lowered her head on to her paws and looked up at her friends with blue kitten eyes.
"You haven't got a choice Corrine, France needs the curse broken." Viveca reminded her.
"I understand that you are all panicked and scared about the witch's spell, and I can't stress this fact enough. We are looking for answers and I can promise you we are going all we can to release you from this curse." Louis said Treville stood beside him, his black fur standing out amongst the court members. Tigers and wolves took up the room, Louis wasn't surprised that the council members were vicious and pack animals, they moved and attacked together to get what they wanted.
"With all due respect your majesty, why don't you arrest the witch and force her to lift the spell." One of the court members suggested, Louis refrained from growling at the man.
"Because she can't. This woman watched her own daughter die from this curse and she couldn't break it then, she is bound by her spell. She can't help, it's not within her power to tell us how to remove the curse. So any more ideas?"
The wolf shook his head and returned to his seat, Louis dismissed the men and returned to his throne. "Treville, we are running out of time. I'm a king and I couldn't even protect my country from a woman who wanted me to feel the same pain she went through. I can't kill her because she can't be found, my father would never have let this happened."
"Louis, you cannot compare yourself to you father, he never met a witch or dealt with something as big as this. Your father would be proud that you are not stressing or losing focus on what is important." Treville consolidated the young king. "Your father used to say 'It does no good to dwell on the past because you can't change it, stand up and face tomorrow with your mistakes fixed so you can change.' Tomorrow will be better and if not then the day after. We will solve this problem Louis, do not lose hope. Aramina is translating the letter and we should have a solution soon."
"I really hope your right, because I can't see my people like this any longer Treville. Sophie said there would give into their instincts, meaning the prey will be killed by the predators. Citizens killing their friends and family. The girls are prey well not Renee but Viveca and Aramina are, they could be hurt. I want the witch arrested."
"We can't she has the power to kill the men who try to arrest her, she may not believe in murder but she will kill to defend herself. We need to wait."
"Waiting won't break the spell."
"Yes!" Edith cheered. "They figured it out well Sophie told them a riddle and Aramina solved it. This is great news all I have to do is protect them from Eleanor." Edith cursed, Eleanor was powerful, a supreme witch, Edith was not. "I don't have a chose do I?" she asked herself, she had to show them that she wasn't the evil witch she seemed to be. She did what she had to do to see her child again and her price was to cast the same spell that had caused her daughter's death.
A/N: Sorry this was short, but I wanted to get to the point. In the next chapter Corrine will blurt out her feelings without meaning too… Breaking the spell. Eleanor isn't happy thus a war between humans and witch. Review and tell me how you think the story will end.
*Spoiler* Someone dies.
