Chapter 17

I have been here for three months now and I can say that B. is very kind and defiantly a girl that I could marry. The one thing about here I did not like about here was every knight as I went to bed B. would ask, "Josh will you marry me?" Every time I would say "No, B. sorry but I cannot I think we should get to know each other better before we go and get married besides you are from money I am a blacksmith and carpenter not a guy for you." I really hated to say no to her since she looked sad with each time I said no. If I stay here much longer I will say yes just to make her happy since I cannot stand to see her sad. I still have not finished this one song. A song that stays in my head, it is a sad in the beginning but it seems to pick up and become happy but I just cannot get an ending for it I want to finish it for B. See I noticed she liked the song and since she is a friend I thought why not give her a song of her own.

One day I was working on a song when I just stopped when I noticed that B. was in the room. "I have found a way for you to help her. She can hit notes on the piano to answer yes and not questions and I can tell you her questions since you cannot hear her talk," she said. "That is a good ideal and it might work better than the one I was working on which was paper and pen to write the questions. It was not that great since I do not know how far her studies have been in reading and writing she might not be as far as I think or she might be father so I needed to find a way to find out but was not sure how. So your way is better and she will feel better with you here since she knows you better," I tell her. "You think so Josh. She well be here in a few hours so you can go for a walk in the gardens if you want," B. said. "Sure you want to join me or will you just come here when it is time for the lessons?" I ask her. "If you do not mind I will join you. I know the way to the gardens better than you do and can get us back faster than you can get back here," she says with a laugh I still cannot find my way well here in the palace and gardens as well. B. finds it hilarious that I cannot yet find my way around the palace.

I have told her the reason that she knows it so well is she lived here her whole life I just moved here. She said I was somewhat right about that but not quite all right about it as well. When I asked what that meant she said she would go to live at a palace by the sea when it was winter. So that means she has two palaces and I only have one house to live in. as we are walking in the halls I noticed that the portraits on the wall had people in them I stop and look at them. I notice that many of the portraits were old so I started to walk and look at the family since I can see that they are kin and they look like Mr. Beast in a way as I walk B. follows and says nothing but refuses to look at the one of the last ones on the wall. It was of four siblings two boys and two girls, the boys both had a strong build one was tall and looked like a bear the other was not as large. The girls are completely different one was small with black hair and blue eyes the other was a beautiful brunet she had long hair and big brown eyes, that looked familiar I think it is because B. has brown eyes and they are a lot like the ones the girls in the portrait.

"What do you think of them?" B asks. "I think the girl with brown hair has eyes like yours." She looks at me and I can see her eyes are the same as the ones in the portrait I think it is her wow she was a beauty I can see why even now she is not that bad looking. So now, I know what she looked like as a human that means that I now need to find a way to free her from this spell. "Let's move on to the garden," she says. She seems a little sad as she looks at the portrait; it seems as if she wishes she were back in her human form. I feel bad for I have been here for three months and have yet freed her from it. I think back to the first night when she first asked me to marry her I think that may be in a week or so I will say yes just to see if that is the way to free her I do hope I am right. I hope she will not say after I free her that I am not good enough to marry her. I hope that I do not feel like I am not good enough for her when I see her as a human.