The pages of her fairy book turned rapidly, as Ella searched for any sign of her eldest daughter.
"Oh, Ella, be calm. She's sure to be fine." Mandy reprimanded, her silly curly grey hair tossing about as she shook her head.
"But I want proof Mandy, Something I can see- ah ha! Here's a portrait." Indeed, the fairy book revealed a portrait of a rather sodden-looking maiden, running into the court of Ayortha.
"Oh dear." Mandy sighed, "It does seem that she got herself into quite a predicament. She's her mother's daughter through and through." Ella gave Mandy a silly look before she glanced back down at the page.
"And look! A journal entry, although, it's doesn't seem like her handwriting..." Ella's voice trailed off as she read what was on the page-
Faolan became High Chancellor of Ayortha today. Mother forced me to go, and it was quite a boring assembly. As Ayorthaian councils go, they are usually quiet, and yet somehow, it seemed that Aymon could not stop speaking for fear of losing his voice entirely.
I tire of Mother's ramblings of how proud she is of her son,
(while giving me dirty looks from across the dinner table of course).
The journal entry went quite in this fashion, (he seemed to be critiquing every one of his family members) when-abruptly, it seemed- the whole demeanor of the entry took another turn-
While attempting to sleep through my brother's inauguration, i was disturbed by a sound in the hallway and went to find out the source.
And, oh, the source.
She was the most radiant, beautiful creature that I had ever met.
(granted, her hair was a mess and she looked as though she had trampled through a mud patch, but still)
Her emerald eyes held me captivated until I felt as though my lips wouldn't move for fear of saying something insanely stupid. Her flowery scent tortured me but before I could contemplate these things, she left.
And I didn't even ask her name.
"Well," said Mandy, who had been reading over Ella's shoulder, "I suppose her tardiness won her another suitor. I hope she won't reject him as badly as she did the last one."
"Oh, come now, Mandy. She said he merely tripped over the castle wall and into the tomato seller's cart." Ella laughed as a young servant ran into the elegant chamber.
"Pardon, Your Majesty, but Mandy is needed in the kitchen immediately. Apparently there has been an explosion due to the over-cooking of a roly-poly pudding."
"Go ahead, Mandy. Char should be coming up soon." Ella undressed quietly and got into her nightdress, smiling to herself about Delilah's new suitor, who seemed quite critical of everything but himself and Delilah. She chuckled. It wasn't going to be long till this one fell in a tomato seller's cart.