The day began like normal for Diamanta. She awoke, and had her bath of seaweed and gravy, which she insisted kept her skin pure as milk. (The servants would protest otherwise.) Relatively attractive, Diamanta needed the whole day to prepare herself for the upcoming ball.
Her mother stood fussing over Diamanta's blonde hair. Millicent was a very regal woman who insisted on running a tight household. Her husband had since died, being rather old and decrepit as he was. With her black hair pulled back in a tight bun, and a face that was always powdered white as cow's milk, it was hard to believe that she was the sister of Mildred, our loveable, incapable sorceress.
Millicent did not however, possess the powers that Millie did, and it caused her to be very sinister. She had tried everything to gain her power, from holding her head underwater until she passed out to jumping off a cliff to see if she could fly. Once she had learned that she could not ever be magical, she turned to other, worse practices. A sly and cunning woman, Millicent could tear a person down, or make them seem like they are on top of the world.
Diamanta did not; thankfully inherit her mother's hate and cunning. In fact, Diamanta was the dullness of princesses, which by the way, is VERY dull. She was the only one in the household who had not stopped believing that fairies lived under water and in mounds of sand. She only knew about six fairies who had told her these things. Despite her lack of intelligence, Diamanta was a very caring and gentle girl.
"Mother, please stop fussing over me! I am perfectly capable of telling the servants to make up my hair myself." Diamanta gently pushed Millicent away.
"Darling, I severely doubt that. You make up her face, and do your hair." Millicent rarely showed gentleness, and it was always only directed towards her daughter. Never mind she had another daughter Emeraulde, Diamanta was number one on her list.
A ring came on the door and Millicent left her daughter's side to answer the door. The servants left the room as Diamanta silently motioned for them to leave. She was in fact not waving them away, but pointing at the floor; however the servants had grown used to Diamanta's confused demands.
Just then the whole house shook, and Millicent ran into her daughters room just in time to see her being carried off by a large ruby red dragon.
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A/N:
I know this doesn't match the other chapters, and I'm sorry it is really short, but I hope you can come to understand where I'm going. the whole idea for this story is still very confused, but I'm sure I'll end up at the end sometime.
