"Excuse me? Who are you to talk to me like… that…" he glanced down to my arms and trailed off.
"My eyes are up here, nephew." I growled, stepping towards him. He maneuvered back so he could step away from me and the table at the same time.
"What are you-what are you doing? Who do you think-"
"Who do I think I am? Who do you think you are to assume that magic does not exist when it is an important part of your history? That just because you have not met her, does she not exist?" I took another step to him, causing him to take a few steps back.
"She cannot exist, the legends were stories and fairytales for events or warnings!" his voice shook as if he was scared, but the noise was loud in my ears.
"Even if those were just stories, you dare insult and invalidate the reigning sisters who invited you to their kingdom? You dare push your ideas onto them? You stand right in front of her, and dare say that an important part of her is a farce?" I took another step and blocked him from stepping back.
"Wha… wait… who even are you?" he asked, a hair's breadth away from a whimper. I immediately straightened my back and fixed my sleeves. No more need to physically disarm him. Now it was time to mentally freak him out.
"My name is Princess Aria of Glory-Haven, first princess of the Swaney village, and The One Who Air-Dances. And you, nephew, are spilling heresy from your lips faster than a waterfall from a mountain. How unlucky that you spoke of me being fake with me right in front of you, yes?" I laughed, casually taking some steps back to calm him. He straightened as well, and seemed to slide into his cocky attitude. He opened his mouth to speak, but I stopped him.
"Honestly, are you going to try to explain yourself further? Because you must have been in the vault by now since you are so close to being crowned. And don't even pretend for another moment that it is all farce when you are wearing yellow. Do you not know its history, nephew?" I managed to calm down considerably, and I brushed the hair from my eyes.
"I am only claiming back a color that was lost to us. It does not mean anythin-"
"Are you aware of how many people suffered during The Silencing?"
"Psha, are you really bringing up The Silencing? It was a deafening earth shift that made everyone go deaf for a few months, nothing more."
I nearly laughed. How could he spit such nonsense about the event I caused right in front of me? I twisted the fabric of air around the Crown Prince, and beckoned him to sit. He sat down full of suspicion, and I locked his position in place. I glanced up to the Alliance members, nodding at my gang of royals.
"So you don't think that I caused soundwave to falter before my people's ears? Not even when it's oh-so easy to control sound?" I flitted my hand through the air, making sure to enunciate. He opened his mouth to speak, but the words were stretched and too loud. He froze in place, and stared up at me. All of the words coming out of his mouth were garbled and illegible. Tears wormed their way into both of our eyes. I was enjoying it, and that terrified me.
With a flick of my wrist the Crown Prince's voice became normal and I was startled by the words coming from his mouth. His voice, however, was still not quite right and had an otherworldly echo to it.
"-and she rose into the air as if suspended by wings, bending the village-kingdom to its knees. She flew into the desert and took the noise with her for twenty long days and nights. When she returned she was even more powerful than before and threatened the ways of life for the Swaney village and its upcoming kingdomhood. So the guards struck her down, melting hot metal onto her beloved's body while she was forced to watch. She killed seventeen men and women before getting to his burning body, and she took him back to the desert with her. She was not seen for fifteen years, and relinquished the crown to her brother. She had not aged a day, and was tricked into serving the royals as a servant. She would disappear for months, until it was once seemed that she was wiped off of the earth. This story, passed down through so many generations, is of our Lost Aunt Aria, firstborn of Swaney, and rightful First Heir."
Once he was done it seemed like a fire was swallowed in his eyes, and his head bumped down. He had passed out. I took a few shocked steps back as my hand flew to my mouth. My gaze locked with the others', and the expressions on their faces were equal shock and confusion.
"What… was… that?" Queen Anna asked, slowly standing.
"Apologies Your Highness. The Crown Prince is a seer, and he will not remember that he did this." The woman hoisted his head up to look the Crown Prince in the eyes.
"He is a seer, and yet he does not believe in magic? How oddly ironic." Duchess Kay said, brushing her silverware with deft fingertips.
"More like moronic." Duke Kai murmured, just about audible. He then seemed surprised that any noise came out at all, and hid his face behind his twin sister.
"Wait one second," I raised my hand, "Our seer manifested in a anti-magic bigot of a CROWN PRINCE for High Above?" I could feel my mind slowly unraveling at the ridiculousness of it all. I turned myself to the table to explain.
"Every hundred years or so a seer is born into the kingdom. They would go into a muddled mindspace and allow beings to use them as a medium. They are normally born to the most spiritual groups of families, and even sometimes to regular civilians, which makes procedure-a-little-whacky, wow I'm babbling. Anyway, I have never seen a royal of any standing be a seer. This must have made the others go insane!" I tilted my head curiously, smiling at his still-sleeping face.
"So that was.. what did that exactly mean?" Princess Rapunzel asked, brushing a strand of her cropped brown hair away from my face.
"Ah," I rose pin-straight, "that was my backstory, basically? Yeah. That's what happened when I heard the call. Just because I heard a noise calling to me from the desert and lost control of my powers, they ruined him."
"Now I'm very confused." Queen Ella's husband commented, raising a cup to her lips with raised eyebrows.
"Yeah, me too." Princess Rapunzel's husband nodded, unfolding and refolding his napkin.
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