"When the last eagle flies Over the last crumbling mountain And the last lion roars At the last dusty fountain In the shadow of the forest Though she may be old and worn They will stare unbelieving At the Last Unicorn...humm humm..."
Amelia breathed in deeply as she gazed out at the winter wonderland outside her carrige and hummed/sang her favorite old childhood song that her mother used to sing to her. Gosh! She LOVED snow! It didn't snow were she lived though, it usually was always warm there. But now that the barrier was gone, she could see all the wonders of the world that she lived in!
"When the first breath of winter Through the flowers is icing And you look to the north And a pale moon is rising And it seems like all is dying And would leave the world to mourn In the distance hear her laughter of the Last Unicorn I'm alive... I'm alive..."
She giggled a bit at the last verse. When she was young she never quite understood the meaning. When asked her mother, the older woman simply said
"You'll figure it out when you're older"
Of course in responce Amelia would pout her face and turn red in the cheeks in irratation. She felt that she couldn't wait that long! But now that she was older, she was slowly starting to understand why the unicorn states that she is "alive". Just as in the story her mother told her long ago, where an unicorn experianced human emotions and in that making her more real than magical yet at the same time more alone. At the end of the story her mother told her, the last unicorn finally found her long lost kin, who were trapped beneath the waves of the sea, but she wasn't the same anymore-she wasn't like them anymore.
"I wonder if she was trying ask someone to find her, maybe..." the princess mused.
But then she laughed and reminded herself humorly that it was only a story. A story that she loved, perhaps-but a story none the less.
She had once asked her mother where did the story come from and she told her that it had came from Old World-the land beyond the barrier.
"But how did it come here?" the young Amelia had asked
"The barrier wasn't always here" her beautiful mother had smiled "And some stories just need to be told"
"When the last moon is cast
Over the last star of morning
And the future has past
Without even a last desparate warning
Then look into the sky where through
The cloudes a path is formed
Look and see her how she sparkles
It's the Last Unicorn
I'm alive... I'm alive..."
"Princess Amelia, we have arrived" her driver annouced as he pulled the horses to a halt.
Amelia blinked her eyes, startled out of her memory. She had almost forgotten that she was there at all. She looked out of the window and stared at the large mansion in front of her.
This was no time for daydreaming! She was on a mission to meet the Govenor of Askata and settle a peace treaty between them and her country of Sailoon. This was a very imporant meeting and she wasn't about to let her Daddy OR her country down!
"I'm alive..."