Chapter 3

The maids burst into the room chatting loudly to each other about an hour after the suns had fully risen. They immediately set to getting DG out of bed. It took the maids about an hour and a half to turn DG into Princess Dorothy Gale. As the maids left announcing that breakfast will be in 30 minutes Cain entered the room. DG turned to face him in what he thought had to be the most beautiful sky blue dress he'd ever seen.

"Well, how do I look? Good enough to disappoint my mother?"

Cain crossed the room to take her in his arms and shook his head. "Don't say that, DG. You look beautiful." He pulled her closer to him. "I love you," he whispers.

"I love you, too, Wyatt Cain." They shared a kiss before leaving the paradise of her chambers to join her family in the dining hall for breakfast.

After breakfast Cain and DG followed the Queen to her study. Along the way Cain and DG shared a short, whispered conversation.

"DG," he whispered. "What did you mean by 'all they want is the power, position and prestige' marrying you will give them?"

"Well, after everything that happened with the witch, Az renounced her claim to the throne."

"What?"

"I'm gonna be Queen, Wyatt." She said smirking at him.

"Wow, DG. How do you feel about that?"

"Honestly, I don't know."

"Just remember, I'll be right there by you side. DG, did you get a strange feeling last night, like you could almost see into my mind?" he whispered.

"Yeah, huh, wonder what that means. We'll have to look into it later."

"I agree. And DG," he whispered as they reached the door to the Queen's study. "I love you."

Cain, ever the Tin Man, did a quick sweep the room before bowing to the Queen and allowing his hand to brush against DG's as he exited. DG hugged her mother and they sat to go over her schedule for the day. Shifting nervously in her seat, she wondered how to bring up the subject of Wyatt Cain to her mother.

"DG, are you listening to me?"

"What? Oh, I'm sorry, Mother I was just thinking."

"Well, as I was saying, you have a luncheon with Lord Arom from the Southern Border Zone. And do try to be nice to him, dear."

"I don't want to see him mother. He's gonna ask me to marry him and I don't even know him. Besides I know who I want," DG responded to her mother deciding to just go for it and hope for the best.

"Oh, my Angel, you've chosen. That's wonderful. Who is it that has caught your eye?"

"Wyatt Cain," DG said, crossing her fingers as she looked up at her mother.

"Oh, Wy… WHAT?! DG, you can't be serious. He's your guard and a Tin Man. You cannot be with him! He's not of Noble birth!"

"Well, I never thought I'd see the day when my mother would be so stuck up and hypocritical! How dare you say such things about the man that not only saved my life several times but also helped save the O.Z.! Not to mention the fact that you didn't even marry an Ozian noble. Father is an artist from Nebraska!!"

"It's completely out of the question DG. Since Azkadellia renounced her claim you are the Crowned Princess and you must marry nobility."

"I won't. I am going to be with Wyatt and there is nothing you can do about it!" She got up and ran from the room slamming the door behind her.