Linda walked along the elaborately decorated red halls of the palace, but the red only got on her nerves. The headache she had gotten when she had first left that damn cage had come back. 'Damn, why doesn't this place have any aspirin? Cripes, its not that much to ask for.' she thought bitterly. 'Great now I sound like my dad. Dad…' she released a soft growl in frustration and sadness.
Chris turned around worried as he watched Linda. He hadn't told her yet but ever since they existed the prison Linda's eyes had held the same gold tint that they had the first time they met. "Well the room is right around the corner." he grinned as he pointed ahead of him.
"Hey Chris?" Linda's voice was soft. The headache began to ease up as she gazed into his eyes.
"Hmm"
"I was wondering about something…actually two things. Where will I end up once I pass through the mirror and…" she paused turning her head away with a melancholy look. "You wouldn't know if my father was still a-alive would you?" she then turned her golden eyes to look hopefully into his crystal blue ones.
"No, I'm afraid not…" she looked sad once again "but I'm sure he is fine." Chris attempted to cheer her up.
She suddenly laughed mirthlessly "Of course, hahaha, why am I even worried." She picked up her step without knowing where she was headed and Chris moved to keep pace with her.
King Wendell stood outside of his castle ready to meet the oncoming carriage. He sighed as he heard soft growling and muttering come from the people behind him. 'Maybe having Wolf and Tony come to the hearing as well was a bad thing. Those two have been at ends since the beginning of all this.' He turned to look at the two men. Virginia stood between them like a mediator so they wouldn't kill each other. Deciding to help Virginia he cleared his throat. "That's enough the both of you. There is no sense in fighting amongst ourselves when we have bigger things to deal with. Queen Riding Hoods carriage will be arriving shortly…" wolf snarled at that but his eyes looked past Wendell towards the road. Wendell rolled his eyes "and I ask that you all behave accordingly."
Both Wolf and Anthony looked as if they were about to speak when the sounds of hoof beats and a carriage adorned in red could be seen in the distance. Wendell turned around curtly and adjusted his composure. He prayed silently that this meeting would end well.
The carriage pulled up and a servant walked over and opened the door. "My Lord, I present to you Queen Red Riding Hood the 4th." The Queen stepped out and smiled delicately at Wendell.
"My lady Queen Riding Hood, it is a pleasure to have you at my castle." Wendell stated with a Kingly bow.
"It is a pleasure to be here King Wendell." She curtsied. "I am glad that you responded to my previous letter."
"Yes. I hope you don't mind but I have asked my advisor Anthony along with his daughter and her husband Virginia and Wolf to join us during our meeting. I felt their input would prove significant to our decision." Wendell watched Queen Riding Hood's features for falter but she looked him directly in the eye.
"I have no problem with this. Shall we continue inside." her voice was soft, portraying no emotion.
"After you my lady" Wendell gestured his hand to the door and Riding Hood proceeded followed by Virginia. Wolf was the last to enter and he snarled to himself before proceeding forward placing on a gentlemanly facade as he passed the doors.
About three minutes later Linda found herself before a grand oak door. "Well this is it. Ladies first." Chris opened the door for her to proceed. Linda looked at him strangely before passing through the door into a large room decorated in gold and red. Chris passed by her and headed to a door at the left of the room and pulled it open.
"I wonder if the room's large enough for her highness" she muttered sarcastically.
"The mirrors are kept in here so come on." Chris disappeared through the door as Linda felt a strange twinge run through her spine as she followed him. They entered into the darker room to find three mirrors in a circle around the room.
"Wow, what are the mirrors for?" Linda walked towards the mirror to the left as Chris moved to the right.
"This is the spying mirror I think…"
"Ahh!"
Chris turned around to see Linda take a step away from the mirror she was glancing at. "What is it?"
"W-what does this mirror do?" Linda asked shaking slightly her eyes were wide.
"It may be the seers mirror. Why, what do you see?"
Chris moved to see into the mirror and was rather surprised to see three figures reflecting back. On right side stood Linda with her normal hazel eyes wearing a red cloak traditional to the house of red. The center stood her normal self except for the right eye was hazel and the other was golden. On the left side sat a wolf with golden eyes and fur the color of Linda's hair wearing a collar with a chain.
"Future? What the hell does that mean then?" Linda's shuddered slightly giving the mirror one last glance before turning away to go to the mirror on the right. Fortune telling had never been something she believed in but she was thoroughly shaken from seeing three copies of herself, or at least what she thought was herself. She felt connected to the wolf just as much as she did with the other two images.
"I'm not sure…hey what are you doing ?"
"This is the spying mirror right?" Linda looked into the glass and noted that her eyes were golden but thought nothing of it.
"Ya. Who do you want to see?"
Linda looked up at him. "I want to see if…if my father is alright."
"Alright, just say the name."
"Wolf" Linda looked hopefully at the mirror. The surface rippled slightly before an image began to appear. Linda let out a happy gasp as her father and mother appeared in the image along with her Grandfather Tony and her Uncle Wendell. They were standing outside the castle and what looked like argument was going on between her Grandfather and dad and everyone there looked strained.
"Thank goodness" Linda muttered as the image rippled and blanked.
"I'm glad." Chris smiled as Linda turned to him. "Lets hurry then and figure out where we are going…"
"We? I thought I was leaving and why don't 'I' just go to Wendell's castle?"
"One, I have always wanted to go on an adventure and this is starting to sound like one and two we should go somewhere where nobody can find us. I-I don't want to place the blame on the 2nd kingdom. We are already having troubles and I don't want them to increase. I apologies for my mother's actions but I hope you could do this for me." Chris's voice grew soft.
Linda smiled softly. "Of course but first I need to at least let my parents know that I'm safe. Let's go to Wendell's mirror room so I can leave a letter for my parents. Then we can go to the 10th kingdom to stay I guess."
"The 10th Kingdom. I've only heard rumors about there." Chris grinned and threw the switch to activate the mirror and then stated his deserved destination while picturing it in his mind. An image of the mirror room which Linda had entered so many times before appeared before her.
Chris stepped through the mirror first and once he disappeared Linda turned to glance once more through the room. She shuddered slightly as her gaze fell on the seers mirror again. She was about to turn around when a table with a red embroider cloth caught her eye. She grabbed it with slight interest and placed it in her pocket before stepping through the liquid surface of the glass.
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