Lenora was out in the garden. She spun in a circle, enjoying the way her simple dress flared out around her. The two gardeners nearby smiled fondly at her, the fourth child of King Char and Queen Ella. Her name was really Eleanor, but she felt that it was too close to her mothers name and insisted on being called by the nickname of Lenora.

"Lenora!" someone called.

She turned to look and saw her friend Jaron running toward her. She walked toward him.

"Your mother is looking for you," Jaron said when he reached her. "She wants to talk to you about something, I think. I didn't bother to ask, just came to find you."

"Thanks, Jaron," Lenora replied, flashing him a quick smile. "I think I know what she wants and I also think she can wait a while. Come here a minute, I want to show you something."

"Lenora," Jaron protested. "She didn't seem to happy. I think you should go now."

"Nonsense," she replied. "I bet Mother just wanted to know if I still want to wear that blue dress to Katrine's ball tomorrow night, and I do, so there shouldn't be a problem." Katrine was Lenora's older sister, and of marrying age. "Now come, I want to show you that tree we planted two years ago."

Jaron sighed and looked worried, but then Lenora grabbed his arm and tried to drag him toward the wall, so he gave up and walked with her.

"What's so amazing about the tree?" he grumbled, loud enough for several people nearby to hear and look curiously at them, but Lenora pretended not to hear.

"Come on, it's this way," she said, moving quicker and forcing him to move faster, too.

After drawing the attention of several more people, they arrived at the tree that Lenora so desperately wanted to show Jaron.

"See?" Lenora asked excitedly. "It's covered in blossoms. It didn't do that last year."

"Yes, I see," Jaron replied impatiently. "Now go talk to your mother."

"I'm beginning to wish Father hadn't made you a squire," Lenora responded huffily. "You've only gotten bossier and bossier. I just wanted to show you our tree. I'm going to go talk to Mother now." She left and Jaron followed, slightly confused.

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"Mother," Lenora called. "You wanted me?"

"Lenora!" her mother yelled.

Lenora gulped. Her mother rarely yelled, and hardly ever lost her temper, but when she did it was for a very good reason. Lenora then guessed that she wasn't wanted for some minor detail about Katrine's ball the next day.

"Here, Mother," she responded meekly.

Ella appeared from around the corner, Char following close behind. Neither looked too happy.

"Young lady, what do you mean by letting all of the horses out of their stalls and bringing them to the far pasture?" Char shouted. Lenora gulped again, she had forgotten all about doing that yesterday. "It took the stablehands all night and most of today to catch them all. Thanks to you, we may no longer have any stablehands by tomorrow."

"Father, I-" Lenora began, but her mother interrupted.

"Lenora, you are confined to your room until further notice," her mother said. "No one is to talk to you until we figure out how best to punish you and have you make reparations to the stablehands. Go."

"Yes, Mother," Lenora replied quietly.

She left, going slowly to her room and thinking about how stupid she had been, taking all of the horses out to the far pasture and then forgetting about them. She began to worry about what might have happened to them. It was cold last night. Are all the new colts all right? And Old Ben, with his bad legs from arthritis, is he all right? She hurried to her room after she had those thoughts and threw herself down on the bed and cried, because of disappointment in herself, at her own irresponsibility and her thoughtlessness the day before. How could she have done such a thing?

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A/N: I know that I said I would write more if you reviewed, but then I got bored and wrote more, so you're lucky. And I found more words or meanings for blue. Some are very weird, but they all mean blue. Ready? Here they are: Blue, periwinkle, the color of a clear sky, the color between green and violet in the spectrum, sapphire, azure, indigo, violet-blue (or blue- violet, you pick;)), navy, teal, aquamarine, cobalt, midnight blue, baby blue, light blue, turquoise, lapis lazuli, ocean blue, chambray, sky blue, powder blue, cerulean, electric blue, blue-green, enamel blue, jewel-tone blue, denim blue, ice blue, color of Dori on Finding Nemo, color that makes green when you mix it with yellow, copper sulfate blue, Fruity Pebbles blue, color that makes purple when you mix it with red, color that should not UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES be mixed with orange, metallic blue, blue-gray, and the color of Orlando Bloom's eyes (or contacts, if you want to be picky) when he plays Legolas in The Lord of the Rings. Now review and tell me what you think of the story so far and if I missed any colors that either mean blue or are some form of blue. Oh, and a word to the wise: Keep away from Orlando Bloom, he's mine and I'm going to marry him.