Chapter 5

Lyra rode towards the castle hoping her mother remembered her. She had no idea that her mother was the new Queen. She thought that her mother had been

hired as the royal shoe maker so imagine her surprise when she sees her mother wearing a crown walking arm and arm with the king. She had no idea her sibling

had been born let alone that it was a girl. When the King stepped away with a girl wearing a beautiful yellow dress with a matching tiara, she saw her chance.

She got off her horse and slowly walked over to her mother. She was just about to call out to her when she was called away on royal business. Lyra couldn't

believe that when the moment that she had been dreaming about for years had arrived she hadn't said a word. She knelt in the garden in the same spot that her

mother had been and cried. All of a sudden, the castle steward approached her. "Are you all right young lady?" "Please can you help me? I have been searching

for my mother for years. I asked in the village and was told she lived here" with that said she began to cry. "Well let's see. What is your mother's name?"

Through her tears she tried to speak "M-Miranda." The steward stared surprised that this girl was also a daughter of Queen Miranda. He saw her distressed

and wanted to figure if what she said was true. So without delay he helped her up and brought her into the castle to await an audience with the Queen. His

plan was to have her wait in a room while he asked the queen the truth. He didn't want to tell the queen the girl was here in case this was all a story made

up. Just as they entered the castle, they literally ran into the Queen. As she picked herself up from the floor and looked up, Queen Miranda gasped. She looked like she had

seen a ghost as tears began to fall down her face. Lyra began to cry harder as she said the one thing Queen Miranda had wanted to hear for years. "Mommy?

It's me, Lyra." Meanwhile Eric was holed up at the doctor's put on bed rest for two months. He had just bought the horse that would take him to his revenge

when he felt another sharp pain in his chest. He clutched his heart and fell off the horse while people panicked. Because of that little stunt, his revenge would

have to wait but the more he thought about it the more he calmed down. "After all revenge is a dish best served cold" was the last thing he said before he fell

asleep for the night dreaming of his plans to put an end to the source of his suffering: Miranda.