Chapter 31
Megan's POV
"Come on Meg tell me." Lin begged while we walked through the hallway towards the
entrance to the palace. I signed with hesitation. After we all decided to wait and see what
Lin's marking might be, Glin had decided since Dimitri knew so much about legends and
everything there was in that old library that starting in a week he would start looking up
anything he could about anything close to Lin's strange markings. Lin and I were now
heading to the court yard where Nessa was getting ready to leave for Munchkin land.
Don't get me wrong we all love Nessa but if she mentions Rye one more time or pouts
I'm going to kick her out myself. "Come on Meg please tell me what you were thinking
when you broke from Morrible. I can feel you want to get it out of your system." I signed
again knowing that it might be too sad to tell her. The heart aching truth that seeing her
dead brought a cold dark memory to my mind. But I could feel her tension, her desire to
know, and her wanting to be able to make the depression I had lingering to vanish. "I
don't know if you want to know Lin. It's a long story and I wonder if it is too much for
you." I said gripping her hand trying to hide the sadness of the memory. But she gripped
my hand tighter and looked at me with a assuring smile. "Meg, you're my guardian I want
to help you in any way I can. Trust me I think I can handle it and if I can't then you will
sense I can't. I nodded with a grin. Lin had been through so much at this point in her life,
as I thought this the memory of me thinking the very same thing when we were out at the
forest right outside of Shiz. Her head on my lap and me brushing her golden locks away
from her face. I remember thinking that she and I probably wouldn't change our lives even
if we could. She deserved to know what I was thinking, she had every right in the world.
My decision was clear when I stopped her in the middle of the hallway. I motioned her to
sit on the bench sitting on the right of us. I sat beside her and looked her dead in the eyes
answering her question. "Lin, what I thought when I saw Galinda stab you or thought she
stabbed you. The anger I felt was indescribable. Like apart of me had left and was
crushed. That my luck had run out. And that I had let it happen again." My eyes went
straight the floor when the images played in my head. She lifted her hand to my shoulder
and asked gently, "What do you mean let it happen again?" I breathed hard and looked
back at her eyes to see comfort but also curiosity. I swallowed and began to explain, "I
lost my adopted Dad when I was eight. They had just told me that I was adopted, that I
was just left on their doorstep. They don't know who left me there but they thought me as
theirs in the moment they saw me. All I had of my real parents was a necklace that was
described by my mom the most beautiful thing she had ever saw." I stopped for a moment
to hold back some old tears that wanted to come to the surface. "I was walking home with
Mom from a show, my very first show actually. When we noticed that the door had been
kicked in. When we ran inside to see what happened, Dad lying on the floor dead. A knife
stuck out of his chest. After they took Dad away I couldn't help but blame myself. I just
had this weird feeling that it was because of me. I felt like I could have done something.
But I couldn't change it. My father died because of me. I just know it. So when I saw you
like that it reminded me of Dad. Then I thought of Dimitr, what would happened if that
happened to him." I closed my eyes trying to push the thoughts and images away. "Oh
Meg, I'm so sorry." Lin whispered I smiled hiding my sadness. She giggled and then my
sadness vanished. "Lin you know I don't like it when you take my emotions from me." I
thought "I know but you feel better don't ya?" She thought back with a soft laugh. I
pulled her in my arms and gave her a hug. She was truly the best royal I could have.
"Bye Nessa, say Hi to Rye for me." Lin said with joy. Nessa had gave all her goodbyes
when she finally made it to Lin. "Bye Lin, and trust me I will. I'll be back soon." she said
climbing into the carriage. Elphie smiled and waved her goodbye one last time when the
carriage went out of our sight. My mind was actually comfortable right now, like it was
really at ease. "Hey Meg, I have you something." Lin said tapping me on the shoulder. I
turned around with a smile and saw she was hiding something in her hands. "What is it
Lin?" I asked with a smile. Lin squealed and was perky as ever when I asked her. She
actually showed me what Glin must have been like when she and Elphaba were beginning
to become friends. "Okay, you know how you mentioned how you left your mother's
necklace back home?" she said with joy. Wait where was she going with this? I nodded
slowly. She grinned wider and opened her hand revealing my necklace. "I manages to
master the summoning spell and well here it is." she said with joy placing the necklace in
my hand and closing it around it firmly. I looked at the necklace it was truly as beautiful as
I remembered it. It was a bright sterling silver with a clear light blue stone in the center of
the pendant, with what looked like green vines spreading all over the stone. Then on the
edges of the pendant where the little bit of sliver lined the stone were small emerald
stones. I breathed with a giggle. "Oh Lin, this is just so sweet of you." I said giving her a
hug. "Thank you." I whisper in her ear. "Lin," we both look behind Lin to see Glin
standing there with a smile. "Your father and Fiyero went to check on the gale force.
Would you want to go on a walk with Elphie, Jen and me?" She asked sweetly holding out
her hand. "Go on, have fun with them." I encourage her. "alright have fun with Dimitri."
She thinks with a smirk running from me towards her Mom and wraps her arm around her
Mom's waist as Glin did the same thing. Glin and Lin were like so close for a mother and
daughter that it made me smile brightly. I couldn't think how happy Lin must be to have
her Mom safe and well. "Hey now that she is gone, do you think maybe I can show you
my room?" Dimitri says placing his arms around my waist ever so lovingly. I grin "Lead
the way good sir."
Oh just one more chapter left. But I promise you this one will be longgg. And it will leave you itching to read the third story. Reviews are welcome.