Oh no, which one of them will kill the other?, Heath said. He was one of the hired help.
"Oh, that is so funny, which one of them do you think will kill the other," Raoul says.
"It is so horribly funny," Heath declares.
When he had first told her of his plan that they should kill the prince Cerella had laughed and laughed. It seemed so horridly funny. But it was all so unreal. Now it was different.
The prince's grandfather on the groom's side tells his old servant that he is little worried about the wedding. They don't really know them at all and they don't exactly trust them. Rumors have been flying right and left. "I think I will give my grandson a knife in case he needs to protect himself," the grandfather said with a smile.
"Yes, I do think that a good idea," said the servant with a solemn face.
The sisters of the prince were also a bit worried. "I don't want him marrying that girl," said the older sister Marianne. "She is a flighty girl that will come to no good. I don't like it. I don't know why he is going through with it. She is really going to be sorry if anything happens. I am watching her. Her brother is ridiculous also, that thing, that horrible thing!"
"That sounds like a fantastic idea. She needs to have someone watch her. She has had no discipline at all. I can tell. She just does whatever she wants. Who knows what could happen to him," Doreen says, the younger sister.
Later on another sister from another mother weighs in. "She will be really sorry if she does not behave. I am watching her," she states and smiles with her oriental face being a little wicked. wickedly she turns to the servants there. They laugh at the idea. She is the daughter of another wife.
Cerella the future bride turns to her brother. Her brother is lost in thought. It is from thoughts of malice toward the prince. "He kissed my hand," she says with a thoughtful eye.
"We must plan this out right and carry it through," her brother the sun says. "This is a very important matter so you must pay attention to it. If you need help I will come in and help you."
"Yes, I know," Cerella says a bit worried about it all.
Later King Grimkin does find them missing. He assumes or hopes in fact that his sister has succeeded in having put an end to her proposed future husband. In fact, nothing of the sort has happened. A great change of mind had occurred. She decided that she did like her future bridegroom. She did even like him a lot.
It had then grown into a deep love that would stay in a very short time. He had shown her his caring with his deep eyes and his voice that had a quality all its own that showed his love for her. He told her that he couldn't help but be in love with her.
"I could not go on without you now. In a short time I have begun to love you as I have never before loved anything else. You are like a little bird of happiness to me and you always will be so," Destry declared to her in a worried state. He was worried as the thought had occurred to him that something might be going on with his bride from the mostly barbarians.
But at this time they were deeply in love. It was not going to end soon or maybe even never.
King Grimkin looked around in his excitement. "Aha, so she has probably done away with him by this time," the king chuckled and laughed to himself. His men that were there looked at him with contempt that they barely tried to cover up. But they would need to put up with him as they always had done.
Later
It is after the wedding. It had been nice but making for a nervous bride. The bridegroom the prince begins to tell her how much he loved her. He says it has happened suddenly.
"You are like a wonderful, beautiful little bird that has flown into my life, my life begins and ends with you," the bridegroom says with an air of total desperation.
Cerella tries to stay calm. She looks about the room with a desperate air. She remembers the plan they had, her brother and she that they had. They were to stay together and make sure that the bridegroom never made it out of the wedding they were to have together.
Prince Destry turned and said, "I have flowers here that are from my homeland. I have brought them here just for you."
"You are so beautiful and you are everything to me at this moment. I watched you in your beautiful blue dress and I fell in love with you then right one the spot. I hope that truly that we will always be together. I know it may seem sudden to you. But this point in my life and ours you are everything to me. You are everything that I ever wanted. I want us always to be together and really to never part."
"Oh well," sighed Cerella. "I also have felt a change in myself. I feel as if we should be together also and if all could be so, never to part." She smiled a little smile then at Destry. Gone were all the ideas of stabbing him on his wedding day or night so to speak.
Cerella felt no malice in her heart for him but only pleasure. She hoped that it would be something also. She had dreaded it a bit. But now it seemed to be something that she could always look forward to. She was a bit doubtful but hoped that everything would turn out to be wonderful. It looked as if it just might happen. She swayed a bit in the near shadows of the early evening. The wine had made her a bit dizzy. She felt a bit uncertain.
"This is a flower I have brought to you. Let it be part of the foundation of beauty that will be our love forever," he held out the beautiful white flower to her then.
"Oh, it is so beautiful," Cerella said in a rising tone of happiness. "I haven't ever seen anything like it before."
Destry held out his hand to her then and pulled her to him. They swayed together for a moment. It was all so new to them. The moon was beginning to come up. The light was beginning to shine on them. It was all sort of mysterious what was happening to them. They were both falling in love then in a way. One must have been more in love as always happens or maybe it was just equal for them. Everything seemed to have quieted down.
She could take it no longer though. Her heart was throbbing and she felt a gentleness within that she had never really felt before. It was something that reached into the very ground and then it turned about and swept back up into her body. She then began to feel a delight that was almost unknown to humans. She smiled at herself and then she turned and smiled at the bridegroom Destry.
Later she said to her friends, "I feel so wonderful," she smiled at them, "I feel as if stars had been exploding all over my body," then she smiled again at them. She turned and spun around delighted.
"Are you okay, really?," asked Gretchen who was one of the kitchen helpers.
"Oh yes," I am really fine she the king's sister stated between her sighs of deep happiness. The happiness was in fact deepening all the time as the days went on.
Cerella then thought to herself that she was not afraid since she like Granny Weatherwax, a witch that lived in the area, she was really the most dangerous thing in the forest.