Disclaimer: I don't get paid for this. (As much as I'd like to be) Gail Carson Levine owns all of the rites and I own nothing, whatsoever.

Ella woke up just in time to see them arrive at a large manor. It was the same color as the carrage, the only difference was the manor had flowers (and weeds) growing along the sides. Ella reconised the place as Dame Ogla's manor and didn't even want to think of what was coming next. Hattie awoke soon after, just as the carrage pulled up in frount of the two brass doors. Dame Ogla came running out, and began to hug Hattie. "My daughter, I've missed you so much!" Then she turned to Ella. "Hattie told me everything. Now you will obey my every command, again." Ella just nodded, she was at a lack of words. "Hattie my dear, you are so smart! If only Olive was here to see this!" Dame Ogla said this all in one breath. Ella just stared. "Mother," Hattie began, "The farie taught me other commands I can do to make her highness's stay more plesant." "Show me" Dame Ogla said "Ella," Hattie started, Ella feared the worst. "Forget your past life Ella, you have no need of it. " Dame Ogla gasped, Ella struggled for a moment, wanting to keep her memories. She could feel them slipping through her fingers, memories of dancing, memories of Char and Mandy, memories of Father and Mother. One by one she began to forget them. The last memory she had was of her father holding her high above the crouds, for a glance of the prince. She saw him waving, the memory slipped to the back of her head and she forgot it. She started to cry, but soon forgot what she was crying about. "There." Hattie said, "Now I can marry the prince and be queen!" She said it with such expression that Ella hoped the prince would be careful. Then Hattie seemed to remember that Ella was there. "Ella, go with Akata. She'll tell you what to do." She pointed at a girl dressed in rags in the corner. Ella obedently followed, but she felt somthing was missing. She longed for somthing but she didn't know what. She followed Akata in to the manor.

Over the half of a year that Ella spent as a servant, her nad Akata became good friends. Akata taught her everything that Ella needed to know. They spent all of their free time together, sometimes reading, sometimes mocking Hattie and Dame Ogla. Ella showed Akata her magic book, and they would read the stories laughing at the jokes and crying at the sad parts. They became best friends and told each other things they told no one else.

Ella was almost happy with her life at the manor. But she hated not being able to remember anything but her life here at the manor. Someday she would escape and go and find her past life. Somthing in the corner of her heart made her long for someone she loved. If only she knew who it was!

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