I flopped back on the floor, thinking. I wish I could see the stars. And I suddenly remembered sitting out on the balcony with Caleb just staring up at the stars. I let out a very un-lady like snort. Back then my biggest problem was about my mother just suggesting that I get married. It's astounding how well, shallow, and protected I had been and how much I had changed in so little time!

I sighed focusing my mind again. There was no point in dwelling on the past now was there? No of course not. But I didn't want to dwell on the other option that I knew I needed to think about. How was the Prince doing this? I mean okay he was obviously insane but he was one person! How was he controlling the people and making them do this? Fear? Money? Or did enough of them actually buy into all this that the others couldn't speak out for fear of what would happen to them… or the ones they cared about. Are the people here hostages… like me? Well at least some of them? I had to find out. It was the only way that I could get us out of the situation. I couldn't let this be the Hydra where you cut off one head and another grows back. Say take the Prince out of power would another somebody, even worse than the Prince, step up to take his place?

I groaned and put my hands over my face. Maybe it was all just a bad dream that I could make go away? Right yeah and a fairy god- mother was going to show up and poof me into a dress and whisk me off to some magical ball where I meet the guy of my dreams and live happily ever after. Yeah that's where fairy TALE comes into play. It's not real. Life doesn't end with a happily ever after because life doesn't just end after marriage people! He could be your absolute soul mate, perfect-for-you-in-everyway-guy but there's still gonna be some problems! No Fairy Godmother to help me out…although it did seem like a pretty tempting idea…

"You called for me little girl? I'm your Fairy Godfather!" I sat up in a flash?

Can we get a "What?"

"I'm your Fairy Godfather! I'm here to solve all your problems!" and sure enough there was a guy… three feet tall… wearing a purple dress… and a blue cape… and itty bitty wings hanging lazily off his back… um okay?

"What?"

"I don't recall seeing in my reports that you were hard of hearing maybe I overlooked something?"

"What?"

"Hmm maybe a little daft then…'What' appears to be the only word she can say."

"Okay, no 'what' is not the only word I can say, I just happen to be a little confused right now."

"Right that is to be expected considering all the things you've gone through. You must've hit your head one of those times." And then he started snickering! Snickering! And I recognized that laugh!

"Garret!" I smacked him upside the head and there stood Garret, rubbing his head.

"What was that for?" I just rolled my eyes not even bothering to answer.

"Just letting you know that we're going to try, TRY to get Andra in here. We… well we kinda may have told Olivia the truth… well as much as we know… and she figures Andra can help. But hey if you don't want…"

"NO! I do need to talk to her and you need me to talk to her too." And he stayed silent just looking at my face before nodding and disappearing. And then there was Andra. Only instead of Garret it was Drayton in his place… I suppose he was the best one at teleporting… kinda hard to believe considering but what did I know? Apparently Andra agreed with me because she didn't look all too happy about the transportation. Actually she looked kinda sick but then again what do I know?

Finally she shook it off and we just glanced back at Drayton, who just so happened to still be standing there trying, and failing, to look like he wasn't really paying attention. Finally noticing we weren't going to say anything he just rolled his eyes mumbling something about "No respect for the magician gosh." Before waving goodbye and the poof no more Drayton.

"Is he always like that?" I asked nodding my head to where Drayton used to be.

Andra just shrugged "Yeah pretty much. You get used to it. They're all a little… erratic. Except Tim he's just the downer." She rolled her eyes at the end and I just smiled. "But then that's not what we're here for. Mind telling me why we are here?" She said. She glanced quickly around the room and I could see her wince the slightest bit.

"That's exactly it. You do know your Prince is here, being held hostage right?" I noticed her eyes hardened and I hesitated for a second. If she was here right now did that mean her loyalties lay here too?

"Yes I did know. That's why I'm here. Word traveled fast from your kingdom to ours that our Prince was to travel with you here. I was sent to help with a treaty. The royal-pain of a Prince here had other ideas."

"A peace treaty… so you've had contact with the Princes supervisors?!" I said my hopes rising just a slightest bit. The supervisors surely would see the foolishness of this!

She just scoffed and shook her head. "Supervisors, please! There aren't any supervisors to see. He had them executed as soon as his father started dying from poison. Convicted of treason and hung the day after. Two birds with one stone."

"Poison… hung…" I just trailed off hopelessly. So Evan really had all the power here…the title of prince was just a show. He ruled everything now.

"Yea and the guy is absolutely insane. He's holding you two as hostages just to start a war. Our countries are small but we have strong armies. Still all three will be wiped out if they go to war. No offense but if your country loses you, your brother can take over. Caleb is all our country has. The King and Queen could rule for a while sure but they won't live forever, and the nobles will be fighting for that power. We lose him and our government fails." Great another million heads on my shoulders…

"Well getting us out of here was the original plan…"

"You have a plan?" She didn't hide the doubt in her tone.

"No…" She rolled her eyes and I shrugged. "I just can't believe the people here would stand for this!" I had only gotten a brief encounter with some of the soldiers but they had seemed like good people… but then Evan had too…

She just gazed at me in disbelief. "You don't know do you?"

I raised an eyebrow (I've been getting pretty good at this huh?) "What do you mean?"

"They don't know. Well they know they're going to war obviously but they don't know everything. His Highness," She said with a scoff and a roll of the eyes "Keeps it all under wraps. Unless of course it suits his purpose and then everything said is so twisted and taken out of context it could hardly be called a quote anymore. Knowledge is power you know."

"So what we need… is a revolution. We need to find a way to get the truth out!"

"Yea and how do you expect to do that?"

"Maybe we don't need to do that exactly! There's got to be someone out there that knows the truth, someone who's afraid to say something. Make people ask questions, start to doubt the lies. Then people will come forward! Maybe not dramatically but one person tells another something and bam you get something!"

"Really and do you know how long it would take to make a country doubt what they think to be true?"

"Ah! Did you not just listen? You don't have to make everyone doubt! And I've met some of the people here and they're not dolts. There has to be some question somewhere! Just bring it up to the surface. It shouldn't be too hard, I mean after all humans are curious by nature. And don't forget the people who are here in the castle. The servants act like they can't hear or think but they know everything that's going on. They know what's going on they're just afraid to stand up. Let's give them a way to stand up!"

"A revolution… it could work."

"But the problem is, if it does work who will take over? There are no supervisors to take charge and I would rather that this little thing ended before I got married… it would just be a fight between the nobles for power."

And Andrea showed me one of her very rare smiles. "I think I might be able to help on that one."