Daphne POV

"Virginia, please tell me now if this whole thing is a set up, because if I wasn't already freaked out before, then I definitely am now" I say, looking at this place, the cells! I only dreamed about escaping this place the other night and now I am here! We even went past the window I jumped out of, though this one I can see they have put bars over.

"Daphne this isn't a set up I promise, I've never been to this place before in my life or know it at all. But it looks a lot like how you described your dreams" says Virginia looking to me curiously, her eyes taking in the place as well, I see Tony suddenly stop at a corner in front of us,

"Daphne, that's the corridor…with the door to that cell – from your picture where you dreamed you were locked up" says Tony, I look to him, walking over to stand beside him and follow his gaze seeing a small corridor leading towards a cell door. I can feel tears falling down my cheeks, seeing the sign to my left 'Maximum Securty.' This was definitely the place where my dream self was locked up in.

The dog suddenly stops beside me and looks up at me, whining slightly,

"Would I be crazy…could it be possible that my dreams…weren't dreams?" I ask, looking behind me at Tony and Virginia, looking at them in fear, they look at me confused at this but Virginia comes over to me, Tony following, I look back to the corridor and slowly walk towards the cell, seeing the signs up on the walls, "no food beyond this point" and more of "no communication with the prisoner" and then a basket at the bottom, "No food beyond this point," every one of these I knew were there before I even looked, not even having to read them properly.

My heart beating fiercely in my chest as I step into the cell, seeing the bed, the small window, all of this I remember so clearly, but it shouldn't be here! They were just dreams!

I sniffle the cry I stop from coming out, this isn't possible - this should be impossible! But I'm in here and all the dreams…or possible memories are coming back full force, forcing me to close my eyes, my head - ache getting worse.

"The witch that turned him into a dog was in this cell, swapped the body of her normal dog that was in here for the prince" says Tony, I can only guess telling us whatever the dog is saying, though if I'm going along with this I might as well call him his real name, prince Wendell, as we learned after leaving the dining area,

"I'm just going to step outside, this cell is…too much, like the rest of this place" I say walking out of the room, feeling worse the longer I'm in here, like a dark mist trying to take over my body. But as soon as I step out I silently shriek when a hand covers my mouth and that dust is the last thing I see.

No POV

"I'm just going to step outside, keep an eye on Daphne" says Virginia, walking out of the cell, worried for her friend, all of this can't be a co-incidence, but it was far too weird to think that her best friend could possibly be from this place, could it?

But as she walks out of the cell, after regaining her composure slightly, not only wanting to see if Daphne was ok, but wanting to get out of that cell for how it made her feel, weak and strange, but without warning the pink dust is thrown at her, and within a second she collapses to the floor, the trolls not caring as much for her as they did with Daphne, Blabberwort catching her in her arms before she fell after Bluebell used the dust on her, none of them really wanting to use it on her but not having much choice as they didn't last time, all knowing that they needed to get her away from the humans and get her home.

Quickly they slammed the cell door closed, locking the latch so the male couldn't get out, not really focusing on the dog anymore, not when their minds are on their newly found mother, ignoring the shouts of the man, Burly picked up the female human, thinking the possibility of using her as leverage for the dog later, but knowing that they needed to get out as soon as possible.

"Told you it would work" says Blabberwort as they finally exit the fortress, going towards the lake, her and her sibling's mother in her arms, she had forgotten what she had looked like, but then the last time she remembered seeing her beloved mother in the flesh was when she was being ripped away from them from their own fathers hands into a magic mirror.

She had realised the possibility of finding their mother when first seeing the mirror before entering the world, but didn't want to raise hope to her siblings, hoping to find the dog first and then open the idea to them. But fortune shined on them and now they finally found her as the witch had said they would.

"Yeah but I don't want to hear dad having a go at us for using the magic dust it against her" says Burly, the human woman Virginia over her shoulder,

"Once he knows why we used it I'm sure he wont be as angry, heck it might even be possible that he wont be angry at all once he sees her" says Bluebell, Blabberwort nodding in agreement.

The three of them proceeding to a boat, flipping the owner into the lake and taking the boat, Burly putting the human woman down on some netting at the back of the boat unceremoniously, but not needing to worry so much as she would not awaken for a good many hours, whereas their mother they knew they needed to be more careful with, not just due to the fact that their mother was the one who created the sleeping dust in the first place, they remembered her having a resistance to it so knew they couldn't jostle her about too much or be as careless as they were with the human as she would awaken quicker, but they would never be as careless with their own mother.

For as brutish as they were as trolls, their love for their mother was unbreakable, especially after such a long period of absence from her, them being instinctively more protective with her.

"Did dad say anything about what she would be like after coming back here? He said she would lose all memories of us in that other world, and we saw that when she saw us there, do you think she'll ever remember us?" asks Burly, the two elder troll siblings looking at each other not knowing what to say, Burly was three years younger then them and was very young when their mother was taken from them.

"He never said Burly, but maybe she'll remember more when we take her home, when she recognises the place, and maybe she'll remember as well when she sees dad" says Blabberwort, she who placed their mother down on a blanket she took off another boat before they set off for their mother to lie down on in front of the boat, this way she and the others could keep an eye on her.

"She doesn't look much different then I remember, or from the paintings" says Bluebell, his eyes going from in front of them where he was sit next to Burly where they rowed the boat, not far from the wall now separating the kingdoms.

"Magic I bet" says Blabberwort, them all using as much strength as they could to get them closer to their home as possible, their hands aching already but none of them complaining.

"How is she?" asks Burly, him at the back, his eyes always going to his mother every now and again, he may be the oldest and always showed strength for his younger siblings, but even when he was young he looked up to his mother, loved her more then anything else in the world.

Flashback:

"Burly!" his head shot up from where he was in the library, lying on his stomach on a fur rug on the floor with a book in front of him, he quickly put the book away on the shelf just in time to see his mother walking in, wearing a thick cotton blue dress going down to the floor, her feet bare as he was used to her not wearing shoes, wearing the family crest on her leather wrist strap on her right wrist.

His eyes going down to her ever-growing stomach where his sibling was within, he hoped it was a boy so that he could play with swords with them,

"Burly what are you doing in here dear? Your father has been looking for you, we were worried" she says, the care and love for her son ever displayed in her eyes, he instantly felt guilty for making her worry,

"I'm sorry mother. I was just reading a – a book of sword fighting" he says, not wanting to reveal what he was truly reading, but he sees the raise of her eyebrow knowing she didn't fall for it, she knew her son well enough to know when he was trying to hide things, and without a word raised her arm waving it sideways to the shelves, he dropped his shoulders knowing that he would be found out,

"Horse breeds, Burly I didn't know you took interest in different breeds of horses," she says after reading title, looking at her son curiously, not angry but keen to know what peaked her sons interest,

"I – I like them, and I've seen a lot of different ones, I just wanted to know…why they were so different, there are lots of kinds mother" he says, she smiles at this, indicating for them to go to the desk that was near them,

"Show me which ones you like," she says, waving the book over to them, resting soundlessly on the desk in front of them, sighing happily when she sat down on the chair, taking the weight off her feet.

Instantly Burly ran over to the chair beside her, kneeling on it so at the correct height where he could reach the book, his heart fluttering with delight at the prospect of showing his mother the knowledge he had learned from the book.

End Flashback

After that his mother always encouraged him with his passion for horses, encouraged him to breed them, he was later the best in the kingdom to breed horses. The proudest moment was when he helped a mare birth a pure white fowl and he gifted the fowl to his mother as a present for the day of her birth.

"She's fine, still sleeping, as long as we don't do anything too sudden with her, jostle her or anything then she should stay asleep" says Blabberwort. The time seeming to go by quick in the day as they finally approached a dock where they acquired a horse and cart, they were thankful that it was covered in fur rugs, placing their mother on next to the human woman.

It wasn't long before they were on the road to their home, all three of them imagining the looks on their fathers face when he is told of the return of their mother, seeing her for the first time in fifteen years. Burly seemed to be bursting to bring his parents together as the other two were when he was encouraging the horse to go faster, but keeping an eye out for pot holes that may cause the cart to jostle, he was already cringing whenever it was lightly jostling, worried that it would wake his mother, but knowing that Bluebell was keeping an eye on her and the human while he drove.

He looked around the place, seeing the state it was in, his father and mother used to keep it more lush and pleasing to the eye, this very field his father gave to their mother as a wedding gift, where there were flowers all over the place, in remembrance from when they would court and he would bring her here for walks, his father told them that they would talk for so long that they started in the morning and no time at all the day would end with them lying on the grass looking up at the stars. His father's behaviour with his mother was different then trolls usually were when courting their love interest. But the trolls of the court and kingdom would all see the love between him and his mother and never doubted them, they strengthened one another, together they were an ultimate force, protectors of their kingdom, none of the other realms would dare try to invade, when they tried they were put in their place.

But after some years of their mothers absence, his father cared less of the fields, he never even went there anymore, Burly suspected that it brought too many painful memories to him, so he took it upon himself to take his siblings there, telling them about their mother that they didn't remember, Blabberwort remembered almost as much as he did as she was only four years younger then himself, but Blabberwort was only four years of age himself when mother was taken, so in her memory both he and Blabberwort took him to the fields and told him about her, from memories and stories that she and their father told and their own. They all felt in a strange way connected to her there in the field, as if her spirit was there with them.

"Hey she's waking up! Good morning" says Bluebell, Burly suspecting that he'd be talking about the human woman, knowing that Bluebell would make up a bigger fuss if it were their mother that had begun to awaken.

"Get over here!" shouts Blabberwort to a guard that approaches them from the fortress after they stopped, the guard taking the horses reins, allowing the princes and princess to get off the cart.

"Bluebell, get the human, I'll get mother" says Burly, carefully taking his mother in his arms, relieved that she hadn't woken, still not too sure what to do if she woke up.

"What do we do if she wakes up? She could try to escape" says Blabberwort, looking at her older brother worriedly in the eye, Bluebell looking to them while holding the human woman over his shoulder, the human having gone back to sleep, an effect of the dust, sometimes the victims wake up for a few seconds but go back to sleep, this giving them a warning of an hour before their victims would wake up fully, a safe-guard their mother implemented when creating the dust.

"I don't know, maybe we should lock her in dads room?" Burly says, the only idea he can come up with, not comfortable with the idea of locking her in the straps like they were going to with the human for interrogation, not to mention it may not put them in good favour if their mother had befriended this woman like they believed from the way she protected the girl in their building in the other world.

"You get her in the chair, I'll take her to dads room" Burly says to his siblings after they got inside, the two nodding in agreement, the three separating ways, Burly ever careful with how he carried his mother, it not taking too long to get to his fathers bed chamber, using his foot to open the door, quickly checking in case his father was inside, but upon not seeing any trace to say his father was within, he walked inside, and as gentle as possible, placed his mother on the furs on top of the bed, carefully pulling a throw over her, wanting to make sure she keeps warm.

Quietly he leaves the room, locking it with a latch,

"Guard! No-one but my father or my siblings and myself are to go inside there, and do not let her out no matter what she says" Burly ordered a guard who was stood in the corridor, the guard accepting this task and stood by the door to the kinds bed chambers, not questioning the princes orders.