The next morning, the Queen was sitting on her wheelchair in her room, looking in the mirror.
"Hello, my dear Preminger," she said after the door opened.
"I just came from the Doctor," Genevieve said, still looking in the mirror. "He said I'm recovering quickly. I should be able to walk normally in a couple of months."
"How interesting," the man behind her said indifferently.
"Preminger, what's wrong?" Genevieve asked and looked at her husband's reflection in the mirror.
"Nothing important, really."
That sentence seemed familiar to the Queen.
"Peter?" she asked, scared.
"You've guessed it," the man said.
Genevieve was about to call for help when Peter took hold of her.
He pressed a kerchief against the Queen's mouth.
Genevieve tried to say something but the kerchief suppressed all her words.
Genevieve scented the smell of chloroform, and the next moment she fainted.
Peter smirked and pushed the Queen's wheelchair out of the room.
Julian knocked on the Queen's door.
"May I come in, Your Highness?" he asked.
When he didn't get an answer, Julian opened the door and peeked in.
"Queen Genevieve?"
He noticed something on the floor and went to pick it up.
It was a small kerchief, but it had the Queen's light lipstick on it.
Julian smelled it and mumbled, "Chloroform."
A scaring thought rushed through Julian's mind, and he hurried out of the room to find the King and the Princesses.
"Now, where's that Julian? He was supposed to bring the Queen," Preminger thought.
The doors opened and the Prince came in.
"I think the Queen has been captured," he said.
The Princesses and the King surrounded Julian.
"What do you mean?" Adella asked.
"I found this," Julian showed them the kerchief. "It's scented with chloroform. Chloroform is being used to make people unconscious."
"You don't say," Preminger muttered, irritated.
"Are you saying, Mother's being kidnapped?" Anneliese asked, frightened.
"I'm afraid so," Julian said.
"We have to find her," Anneliese was certain.
"Let's split up," Adella suggested. "We'll search the whole castle and the gardens."
"I'll send out the search parties," Preminger said and rushed out of the room.
"Who do you think might have done it?" Adella asked.
"I don't know," Anneliese answered. "The Doctor is imprisoned, and so is your Mother. And Peter is..."
At the same moment, a servant rushed in and said,"Peter has escaped."
"Oh no," Anneliese muttered.
"What is it?" the other Princess questioned.
"Peter is your uncle," Anneliese replied. "He is very dangerous. He has tried to kill the Queen once. And now that he is free..."
"It's okay. We'll find your Mother," Adella assured her. "But we'd better hurry."
Anneliese nodded, and the Princesses hurried out of the room to look for the Queen.
"Please be alright," Anneliese thought.