The Season's Curse
Chapter 2
Elena
Present Day
A snowflake landed on Elena's long dark lashes as she blinked turning the snowflake into it's original form. It had been a while since Elena had been allowed outside to just sit there and enjoy the weather. Normally she would be locked away in her tower with her best friends Sybil and her servants who waited on her hand and foot, but every now and again they would let her out into her kingdom so she could mingle with the peasants. They believed it was very unfortunate for the princess, but to her it was a form of escape.
"My lady!" Sybil gasped as she witnessed Elena standing in the snow with her coat on the ground and her feet bare. Elena didn't mind though. Ever since that witch had cursed her with water magic the cold hadn't really bothered her. Not snow. Not rain. Anything.
Sighing Sybil grabbed her coat and threw it around Elena's shoulders fastening it to Elena's body as she pushed her hair back so that it wouldn't get caught.
"I don't see why you do that Sybil."
"You're going to catch a cold if you're not careful."
Elena gave Sybil a good laugh for sympathy as she shoved her feet back in her shoes to humor her. Not many knew that Elena was unaffected by things that contained water nor did they know hat she could control it in multiple ways. Hell she could even stop the snow storm if she wanted to if she wasn't the one who created it in the first place.
"Remind me again why we chose to come out in this blasted snowstorm?" Sybil asked pulling her coat tightly against her. Unlike Elena she didn;t really like the cold that much, which was ironic seeing as how her kingdom was nothing but cold.
"To have a little fun Sybil, have you forgotten what the word fun mean?"
Sybil bit her lip to refrain from saying what everyone had been thinking the past decade. There was no room for fun when there was a war going on around them, but Elena begged to differ. She was at peace in her kingdom and just because everyone else had stopped their lives for this war didn't mean that she had to.
"Listen my lady it is getting rather late and it is my duty to return you to your chambers as soon as possible. I know that this world may not seem fair to you, but the world is an unkind place my lady there is no room for happy moments only strategy and warfare."
"You are wrong about that Sybil for you see it is not the world that is an ugly place but the people who chose to inhabit it. I refuse to be one of those people. Do you?"
Sybil bit her lip stunned that Elena had spoke out. Usually in times like this Elena would comply with the things Sybil was saying but today she felt like being bolder. Today she felt like being the leader of this kingdom rather than the scared little girl who had lost her free will over ten years ago. Thin gs were going to change around the kingdom and for everyone else's sake she hoped that they would be prepared for what happened next.