Chapter 13: Elise tells Grant
Elise giggles as he raced to her with open arms. Grant wraps her in his arm and spun her around. She wraps her arms around his neck and embraced him tightly when he had put her back on the ground. "I missed you so much Grant!" The prince smiles and kisses the girl he missed for the past few days.
He chuckles and lays his forehead on hers. "I knew I'd find you!" He holds her close. "Everyone at the castle will be so happy to have you back."
Elise frowns at this. She knows what she needs to do before returning home. Pulling from the embrace she looks to Grant, with a serious face. "Grant, I can't go back home. At least, not yet."
His eyes wide, taken back at her reaction. "What? Why?"
She caress his check and looks at him straight in the eye. "I've got a lot to explain."
Grant bites his bottom lip. "This is something I need to sit down for, isn't it?" After one nod from his fiancée, he sits on the ground.
Elise sits beside him and tucks one of her ankles on the other. She waits for a minute as she thinks for a place to start. She then looks up to him. "Before you found me, you saw a glowing fox, didn't you Grant." She continues when she receives a nod. "That was me Grant. I'm under a spell."
He looks at her with wide eyes. "A spell? What kind of spell? Who cast it!?"
She puts a hand on his shoulder. "It's like the spell that the castle was under but every night I'm turned back into a human. The man who kidnapped me was the one who cast it. He was at the castle the night Adam and Belle presented Lori to the kingdom. His name is Methis."
Grant glares at the ground. "Where is he now?"
Elise shakes her head. "I don't know. He left this morning and hasn't returned."
Grant sighs irritatedly. He thinks and lays his cheek in the palm of his hand. He then looks to her. "How do we break this spell?"
She sighs and looks down. "We don't know. Methis hadn't said anything to us."
He looks at her with an eye brow raised. "Wait, we?"
Elise's bites he bottom lip. "There are nine other people here under the same spell. We don't know why he's doing this, either."
Grant holds her hand. "What have you been doing since you been here?"
She then points to the small mansion. "I've tried to get in there. That's where I woke up after being brought here. I think I can find the way to break the spell."
He looks over to the mansion. "He's not here, why don't we go inside and look."
She looks at him. "I would but I would be caught. He's not here but his stooge is."
The prince sighs. "We're really stuck, aren't we?" He thinks. "I promise I will find a way to break the spell and free you all."
Elise lays her head on his shoulder. "But how?"
Grant wraps his arm around her shoulders. "I don't know, but I will. Even if I have to find the enchantress and beg her for help."
Elise smiles, for the first time since she been here, she feels truly safe. She the feels Grant gently pushes her from the embrace. She looks at him and saw him smile to her.
"So where are the other nine people?"
Elise smiles and takes his hand, pulling him to his feet. "Right this way." She then lead him away from the field.
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