After tea Ember walked out to the Royal garden by the rose garden. She sat on a swing like she had so many years ago. She was so happy to be home, but she knew the dragons would take her back in till she married. She looked at the sand as she dragged her feet back and forth. Life at the place had been so simple, now that life was gone forever. Ember thought about Faith, and Queen Una, and Kora, and everyone who had ruined her life and fixed it. Now even her little sister was going to get married. The life she had missed so much was gone, her favorite slaves, her childhood, and her love for dragons.
Ember gazed around the garden and saw Prince Henry in the sandbox a ways away. Ember knew this would scar her life forever. She slipped off sandals and let her feet drag in the sand and she slid back and forth in the swing slowly.
"I thought I'd find you here," said Prince Roy as he took the swing next to Ember.
"It's so like you,"
"What's so like me?" Ember asked still looking at her feet.
"Being free with your strong sprit. I knew you'd come back,"
Ember smiled.
"I didn't, I thought I would die the day Queen Una took me."
"I did too for a while, I knew my little sister okay though," said Roy smiling.
He got up from his swing.
"Princess Ember of the City of Ember, you have a guest," A slave boy said.
"Who?" asked Ember
"Some Prince Brody," said the slave.
Roy smiled.
"See, already your luck has changed, told you that you were lucky." he smiled and left while the slave took Ember to the thrown room.
Ember took a seat on the thrown in the thrown room and waited as a slave let Prince Brody into the thrown room.
"Hello Princess Ember," he said.
"Hello," said Ember as she rested her chin on her knuckles.
"So, why did you come here, to my place, my home, to see me?"
"What else would I do?" asked the prince
So it was settled, Prince Brody would stay for the next few weeks. But was everyone in the place, or was every creature in the land okay with Ember's return and Brody's stay?