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Chapter 13: Starzao

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"Don't worry your little head now Alanna, we're here." Jon said.

"Little head? Little head! Since when have you treated me like some… some… court lady?" Alanna couldn't help saying.

"Never mind. Just look around." Jon said while slowly taking out Alanna's blindfold.

"Look around?! I can't even see anything! I'm still blindfolded—"Alanna started to say when Jon took out the blindfold. "Oh. I'm not blindfolded anymore." Alanna said staring into Jon's blue eyes.

"Look around." Jon said as he gestured the place with his hand.

"Heavens to betsy!" Alanna said as she 'breathed' in her surroundings.

The place was a really beautiful place. It was a clearing of some sort. There were trees that formed a circle around a pool with clear water and a garden of some sort. It is really more beautiful than it sounds. The peculiar thing about this clearing is that it had a lot of star-shaped things. Just like the shape of the pool, the clearing and the flowers. In the garden, there was a portion there that seemed like the ground grew and there was really thick grass. The treetops covered that certain part.

Jon noticed Alanna staring at that certain spot with the treetops covering it.

"That's a bed, by the way." Jon said pointing at the spot.

"Oh. I thought it was some weird thing. Why is almost everything here star-shaped?" Alanna asked.

"I don't really know its origin. Sir Myles showed this place to me. He said that this belonged to a prince a long, long time ago and that the prince's name started with the letter j. That's why the branch going into this place is shaped like a letter j. This place is called Starzao. To get in here, you have to twist the branch and a hole will appear. Then you land on that soft thing. Then you go through a series of paths and reach this place. There are different doors in this underground place that leads to a lot of places, yet, I haven't explored them all. Myles told me that not just anyone can open the doors; you have to be destined to do it." Jon said.

"Oh. So how did you find this place if there was so many doors?" Alanna asked.

"Boy, you're full of questions. Anyway, Myles told me to go to a door shaped like a star and with a j in the middle of it." Jon said. "I'm sure you're wondering how could I find this place if I was so busy being the prince and all. Well, Myles showed this place to me before I became a page. We used to go here a lot. My parents don't even know about this place." Jon said.

"Wow. That's all I can say. Wow." Alanna said as she flopped on the 'bed'.

"Now, Alanna, I brought you here to ask you one question." Jon said as he approached her and lay down beside her.

"What's that?" Alanna mumbled, not knowing in the simplest idea what he was going to ask.

"Could you please stand?" Jon told her.

"You came here to ask me to stand?" Alanna said giggling.

"No, but it's not proper to ask you this question while you're lying down." Jon said and helped her stand up. He knelt down and held her hand in his. "Will you marry me?" Jon said looking deep into her amethyst eyes.

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"Where is Alanna?" Thom asked Gary.

"How should I know?" Gary said in a mean way. "Sorry, I'm still mad at her about the spell. But really, I don't know where she is. Come to think of it, Jon's gone too!"

"So where could they have gone?" They asked together.

Something tells me they're not in the palace at all. Faithful said, appearing out of nowhere.

"Oh bother. I won't go looking for them if they're not in the palace." Thom said and left Gary and Faithful standing there.

Okay, what's eating him? Faithful said.

Gary just shrugged and walked away.

Fine! Just when I appear, they just leave me to stand here! Faithful grumbled.

Aaaah! Faithful yowled as he jumped coz the Goddess suddenly appeared out of nowhere.

Don't you ever do that again! Faithful told the Goddess sternly.

"Not like I can prevent it right?" The Goddess said impatiently. "Now where is Thom?" she said but didn't wait for Faithful's answer. She just walked away.

Here they go again! Faithful said, went off to find some mice's/rat's/whatever he likes to eat.

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Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! I'll leave you there for a long time! I'm evil, evil! You all have to wait for Alanna's answer till next update! And you don't know how long that'll be!!! *Goes of saying" I'm evil, evil!"*