Princesses Don't Perspire - Ch. 9, Frog Princesses and Finding Spells

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Princess Rosalynn POV:

I'm awoken by soft shaking and I open my eyes slowly. I notice the slight pink tint to the sky that reveals sunrise is coming. I glance around confused and notice Nathaniel kneeling beside me and looking like death. His eyes have dark circles under them and his hair is a mess.

"Why didn't you wake me earlier?" I ask with a slight frown. He shrugs.

"Wasn't that tired." I narrow my eyes at him but say nothing. I know that he's lying about not being tired. Honestly he appears to barely be keeping his eyes open and I have a feeling he's felt this way for a while now.

"Alright, you sleep. I'll wake you up in a few hours." I tell him then stand-up to stretch and wake myself up more completely. Nathaniel nods, gladly lays down in my old spot and falls asleep practically immediately.

Stupid proud prince. He should have woken me up sooner so I could take watch. He's going to be exhausted all day now. Tonight I will have to insist on taking first watch so he can get some extra sleep.

I sit and keep an eye out for any possible dangers until long after the sun rises. Finally Prince Andrew and Prince Gregory awake by themselves.
"You both stay here." I whisper commandingly. "Don't wake Nathaniel unless absolutely necessary. I'll go find breakfast."

"What if you get lost?" Prince Andrew speaks too loudly and I see Nathaniel flip over restlessly. I shush the tactless prince and reassure him that I will not travel far enough to be lost.

I walk out of the cave and look around at the treetops. I spot what I was looking for. I grin and begin to scale one of the trees. Dresses are not appropriate for tree climbing. Again I thank god that I was smart enough to wear my boots for the hunting party. If I were wearing flats or worse, heels then there would be no way I could've made it up the tree.

I peer into the small birds nest that I had seen from the ground, five eggs.

"Sorry." I mutter as I gently take four of the eggs, making sure not to touch the fifth egg or the nest itself. I place the eggs in my dress pockets, gently. Retreating from the tree is more difficult than climbing it because I have to try not to break the eggs. I succeed in getting to the bottom without breaking the eggs and commend myself on a job well done. I walk to the cave and start a fire. I find a few flat enough rocks to cook the eggs on and use as plates later. As the eggs are cooking I glance at Nathaniel and see him stirring. I worry slightly that he won't get enough sleep and that he'll end up passing out later in the day. He sits up and rubs his eyes whilst smelling the air.
"What are you making?"

"Breakfast." I respond to him with a self satisfied grin.

The four of us sit and eat the eggs after they have cooled. Prince Andrew complains about there not being more food. Prince Gregory asks if there's any possible way that the eggs could be poisonous or something and Nathaniel doesn't do much. He's still attempting to fully wake up.

After breakfast I stare at the map to discover which way to travel now. I notice a river and more woods now stand in between my castle and the cave. I sigh and explain to the princes that we will be travelling in the same general direction. Our group walks forward. Prince Andrew and Prince Gregory walk behind Nathaniel and myself. Both of them must feel a bit silly and embarrassed after what happened yesterday with the dragon. Nathaniel and I chat sometimes but otherwise he's pretty quiet. I figure he must still be tired.
We reach a slight clearing in the forest and before we can pass through it we hear a scream.

"Help!" Everybody searches for where the voice came from. We are all confused because the voice sounded as if it is close to us but there was no one in this slight clearing. "Down here!" We glance around. I see nothing but... a frog?

"Um... hello?" I ask the frog suspiciously.

"Hi!" It calls up to me. My eyes go wide and I back up a few steps. Nathaniel scoops the frog up uncarringly.

"A frog prince?" He chuckles at the absurdity of it all. I find it a bit humorous as well. Though less so because I knew the thing would want me to kiss it if it was a frog prince.

"Frog Princess actually." The frog puffs its chest out proudly and ribits. My worries disappear, no kissing will be done by me.

"Oh? Nice to meet you." I say kindly.

"Yeah yeah. So are you all Princes?" The three boys nod at her question. "Excellent! I need one of you to kiss me." She demands.

"Sorry I don't really want to marry a princess at this moment." Nathaniel hands the frog over to Prince Andrew. It is common knowledge that if you kiss a frog prince or frog princess in this case then you will marry him/her and get part of their kingdom, so on.
Prince Andrew pulls a face.
"I refuse to kiss a small disgusting, green animal." He passes the frog to Prince Gregory.

"Um... I just kiss you?" Prince Gregory looks worried.

"Yes, that's the idea."

"Okay." Prince Gregory leans his head down and kisses the small green frog.

A puff of smoke appears causing Prince Gregory to bounce backwards, afraid. When all the smoke dissipates, a pretty girl can be seen standing there.

"Oh, thank you! I have to bring you to meet my family." The girl claims excitedly. She waves to the rest of us and grabs Prince Gregory's hand and starts to pull him off.

"Wait!" I call after them. They both turn and look at me. "Are you going to be okay?" I ask concerned. "I mean the forest changes, you may get lost and there are a lot of dangers." I don't want to cause Prince Gregory to be worried but I don't want them to go off without some warning.

"Oh no worries." The Princess smiles. "I'll just call for my fairy god mother. She promised once I wasn't a frog anymore she'd help me." I frown slightly but nod.

"If you're sure..." I trail off.

"Just watch." The girl smiles and yells loudly. "Oh Lucinda!" A pink puff appears and dissipates quickly.

"Darling!" An older looking woman, with wings and a beautiful sparkling dress calls out happily. "You aren't a frog anymore! How wonderful. I'll just puff you and your Prince home, shall I?"

"Thank you fairy godmother." The girl sings happily with a huge smile.

"We need one of those to zap us home." Nathaniel suggests with a grin. My face breaks out into a huge grin. What a brilliant idea.

"Excuse me, Miss Lucinda, was it? Do you think you could puff me and my friends home too?"

"Dear I'm afraid I can't. The rules of being a Fairy Godmother says I can only do things for my client. I'm sorry." With a sigh I reassure the woman it's not her fault and that I completely understand. It is rather unfortunate though because my Fairy Godmother was on vacation this month.

"What is that necklace you are wearing?" The Fairy Godmother inquires, shocked. "Where did you get it?"

"I tried to tell her it was ghastly when the troll gave it to her." Prince Andrew speaks rudely as per usual.

"A troll gave that to you? Well you must've done something great for him to give you a gift so special."

"Special?" I inquire confused. I touch the blue gem and feel the tingly sensation that I had the first time as well.

"Yes dear, very. I'm afraid I can't tell you the precise workings of the necklace but it has a finding spell embedded in it."

"Finding spell?" I grow more and more curious.

"Yes. I'm not sure of the exact details though." I thank the Fairy Godmother for the information and watch as she causes Prince Gregory and the princess to disappear, then she follows soon after.

A magic necklace? Finding spell? I stare at the blue gem of the necklace. What could this mean? I unclasp the thing from around my neck and place the blue gem in the center of my palm. Suddenly the blue of the gem becomes foggy and an arrow appears. An arrow pointing towards the direction we had been heading before to get to my home.

"It shows me what I want to find." I mutter to myself.

A finding spell.


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