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When the green hue around the amulet dimmed, Cedric bought the jewel closer to his face and squinted at it. "Hmm," he said, "that is peculiar. Why didn't it work?" he asked as he gave the amulet a tiny poke.

Wormwood let out a loud caw and flapped his wings towards Cedric. He floated midair and continued to caw. "Ooh what?!" Cedric snapped at the raven who nudged his head towards the woman that was in the back of Cedric's room. Cedric whipped around until he came face to face with the mysterious woman. He looked at her up and down and studied the features that she beheld.

She was slightly taller, almost the height of Queen Miranda, and she beheld a golden crown on her head. There was a serene look upon her face but it made Cedric feel uneasy. Her eyes were a striking green color that Cedric thought were staring straight into his soul, the lips the color of a blood rose, and she bore a purple gown with a golden rope tied around her waist, a dark flowing cloak, and a balaclava that covered her dark hair and neck. In addition to that, a black raven was perched upon her shoulder.

"W-who are you?" Cedric finally broke the silence between them.

The woman gave him a smirk and folded her arms across her chest. "I am the Queen, the fairest in the land," she answered his question. To her curiosity, her green eyes searched across the room. The last thing she remembered was falling off a cliff and then seeing nothing but darkness. What was she doing here and why was she even alive? "And who might you be?" she asked as she studied him from head to toe, "some sort of wizard?"

"A sorcerer to be exact," Cedric told her as he waved his wand in the air, "did you just come from this amulet?" he asked as he held the necklace up for her to see.

The Queen squinted at the amulet. So that is where I came from? she thought I was asked to come here for some sort of reason, but what? "Did you by any chance wish for my appearance?" she asked Cedric.

Cedric shook his head, "of course not," he replied, "I simply asked it for something more powerful and important to me. Where are you from?" he turned his attention that the woman who called herself The Queen.

"I was the queen of a faraway land," she answered him.

"Was?" Cedric raised an eyebrow, "why, whatever happened?"

The Queen lightly chuckled when he asked that question. It had happened a long time ago and now that she was resurrected into her own beautiful self, she felt that it had happened just yesterday. "Tell me Cedric," she turned and looked at the sorcerer in the face, "what was the powerful object that you asked for?"

"Ah that is for me to know only," Cedric told her with a sneaky smile on his face.

However, the Queen was no fool. She was inside a sorcerer's lair with a raven perched on his shoulder. She threw her clock over her shoulder and walked across the room until she approached the window. Her eyes scanned the land that she was in and her lips titled into a smile. I am inside a kingdom she thought. "I assume by the powerful object that you stated, you are wishing to take over the throne," she told him but Cedric did not answer her, "however, someone is in your way. Do you wish to get rid of them."

Should I possibly trust this mysterious queen into helping me achieve my dream? Cedric contemplated. Then again, once he finished his plan, he was going to make sure that this woman went back into this amulet and never came out again. He looked up at the Queen and gave her a smile. "What is one way to get rid of someone?"

The Queen gave him a smile as she threw her arms in the air and slowly waved her palms as if she was rubbing an invisible wall. A pool of green light began to shine above them as animated images from the past began to play. "For me, personally," the Queen turned her eyes and looked at Cedric, "I was supposed to be the fairest in the land. That opportunity was taken away from me by that little one," her slender fingers pointed to a fourteen year old girl whose hair was black as ebony, lips as red as a rose, and skin as white as snow.

"How did you achieve your plan?" Cedric asked her.

"Wise question," the Queen said as she waved her hand over the images and changed it to a different scene, "my first plan was to have the hunter murder her but that plan was foiled. However," she threw her cloak above her head, causing the raven that was perched on her shoulder and float in midair, and turned into an old woman. Both Cedric and Wormwood grimaced when they saw her do that sort of change. She reached into the dark sleeve of her robe and pulled out a red apple, "I gave her this delicious poisonous apple." When she said this, the fourteen year old princess had taken a bite of her apple, "where she went into eternal sleep!" the old woman crowed when a limp hand appeared.

Cedric stared at her in shock. So what this Queen, or rather old woman, really meant was to kill the royal family so they would not get in the way. The sorcerer felt that he did not even have the heart to hurt them, let alone kill them. Feeling a bit intimidated he said in a slightly pitched voice, "well, thank you for your time. Time to go back," he said as he held the amulet in front of the Queen but as a result, the amulet began to shine brightly. Cedric threw his arm over his eyes and once the light dimmed, another woman had taken her place next to the Queen.