The next morning was a busy one for everyone, the Triplets were helping Boscha paint and decorate her room, Skara was learning how to create instruments from Kreo, and Odalia and Alador decided to take Amity out shopping to get her a new wardrobe and get her used to the Isles. In the Emperor's Castle, it was busy for another reason.
"Emperor Belos! The Princess is missing!" Kikimora said, pounding the door to Belos bedroom.
Belos opened the door and looked at the gremlin.
"Have you checked the gardens?" Belos asked, knowing Luz used to go there with her mother.
"We've searched the entire castle, she isn't here!" Kikimora said, "We've sent guards to the school, the library, the prison, everywhere in Boonesborough and the castle! We don't know where she is!"
Belos thought about it for a moment, before realizing something.
"I know where she is." Belos said.
In another part of the Isles, Boscha was covered in paint. She had spent the entire morning getting her room ready, and with her caretakers helping her, it wasn't taking that long. Elizabeth chuckled when she saw Boscha with a grey spot in the middle of her forehead.
"Well, look at you, my little triclops." Elizabeth said.
Boscha looked in the mirror and laughed. It looked like she had a dark grey eye in the middle of her head.
"Huh, I guess I do look like I have a third eye." Boscha said, "Listen... I... I appreciate you two taking care of me."
"Listen honey, it's no trouble." Mavis said, "Honestly, we always wanted a kid, but... we couldn't."
Elizabeth hugged her wife.
"It's not your fault." Elizabeth said, before turning back to Boscha, "Mavis is... infertile. We've tried for kids, but we never got the privilege of having kids."
Boscha looked shocked. How could a couple so kind to allow a stranger into their home, not be allowed to have kids? Boscha went over to them and hugged them.
"You do now." Boscha said, "I'll be your child, I'll be the one thing you never got to have."
"Boscha, you don't need to-"
"I never want to go back to the Human Realm." Boscha said, "The people that gave birth to me are nothing but abusive jerks!"
"Abusive?" Mavis asked.
Boscha closed her eyes and lifted her shirt, revealing a large dark blue bruise around her ribs.
"They... they're politicians, they're very good at hiding the truth." Boscha said, feeling tears fill her eyes, "I don't want to go back, I want to live my life. I... I want to make potions like you, I want to learn magic... I... I want to be Boscha Triplet."
Elizabeth and Mavis hugged her.
"We're taking you to a healer." Mavis said.
"Then... we're getting adoption papers." Elizabeth said, "Boscha Triplet does have a ring to it."
Boscha smiled before her moms led her out of the room. At another part of the Isles, Belos knocked on a door and it opened, revealing a woman with a scowl.
"I was wondering when you'd show up."
"Hello, Edalyn." Belos said, "Is my daughter here."
Yeah, Boscha has made the decision that she's never going back, and can you really blame her? The Triplets have shown her more love in less than a day than her birth parents have given her in 14 years. Follow, Favorite, and Review for more.
