10th Princess

Chapter 5: Oh no.

"Lunch was Great, Virginia." Priestly told her as they walked through the halls to dinner. "We talked a little, and it seemed like we had a semi-debate about food. I told him about how we mass produce cows and kill them in mass production. Of course, he didn't like that idea." She explained. Virginia smiled.

"It's always nice to have someone you can actually talk to." Virginia told her as they turned into the dinning room. They took their seats, and that is when Priestly noticed that she was sitting a chair down. Apparently there was no princess to sit next to Wendell tonight.

"So Priestly, what do you do back in New York?" Tony asked.

"Oh goodness. I was working part time as a house cleaner, while going to College. It was easier when I lived with my father, but I couldn't stay with him." Priestly debated on telling them the whole truth. Well, if they wanted to kidnap her for ransom, they would have done it already. "I moved into my mothers a year ago, even though I lived with my father my whole life. He's a Politician, his new wife decided it would look bad if while he was running for president, his love child still lived with him. I wanted him to win, so I went to my mothers, even though she's crazy. Anyways, he won, so I guess I did the right thing." She ranted about her father. She saw their eyes raise a little in almost shock.

"So your dad is President of the United States?" Tony asked.

"Uhh, yeah." Priestly mumbled and took a bite out of the steak that came. Her face was red from embarrasment of them looking at her differently now.

Wendell's POV

Priestly is daughter of the guy running the 10th kingdom? Wendell thought. That would make her a princess, in a way, if I could get my advisers to approve of it. Wendell watched her face turn a little red from everyone looking at her. He hid his smile by taking a drink, as the others started to ask her questions, actually mostly just Tony. Priestly didn't seem to mind answering them, she mostly just seemed embarrassed from the attention.

After Dinner, Wendell called his Advisers into his study, and looked at them. "After hearing tonights conversation, I would have to say that Priestly is a princess of her own kingdom, wouldn't you agree?"

Priestly looked at some books in her room. She picked one up, and started to read about the creation of the Kingdoms. She figured while she was there, she might as well understand the whole deal with all the Kingdoms. Or at least as much as she could. After she was a few chapters in her book, she heard a knock on the door.

"Yes?" She asked as she stood up and walked over to the door. She opened it, and Kristoph was there. "King Wendell would like to speak to you." He told her. Apparently he liked the pale blue dress she wore today, because she noticed him looking her up and down. She blushed and smiled a little.

"Okay, I will go see him right now then. Thank you Kristoph." She told him, moving past him in the door way, and walking to Wendells study, her book still in her hand. The guard told her to go in, and that Wendell would be there soon, so she walked in.

"Hmm." She said, looking around his study. It was full of books. She tried not to pry at all, but she saw some on his desk and walked up to it. She noticed something that said her name, and she looked at it. There was all the stuff they had on her, which wasn't much. However, in that stack of papers, she noticed something. Wendell never contacted the Dwarves. In fact, he hadn't contacted anyone about the mirrors at all, and it had been almost a week.

Priestly grew frustrated. She looked at the thing and noticed wear the dwarves lived. She had a map in her room of the 10 kingdoms. I need to get home. I really do. I can't stay here, not like this. What would I do if I did? Work as a servant the rest of my life? She said, frustrated. In her world she could rise from the lowest class, here you couldn't rise up that much unless you where born Royal.

A plan formed in her mind. A map in her room, and the information on the dwarves that she had herself, and knowing how to find the dwarves, from the story that both Tony and Virginia told. She walked away from the desk and out the door, the guard giving her a weird look.

"Oh! I forgot something! I am so sorry." She told the Guard as she moved down the hallway. She went straight to her room, luckily not running into anyone. Inside her room, she found her old pair of clothes, the ones she had when she came through the mirror. Quickly changing into them.

Wendell

When Wendell went to his study, expecting Priestly to be there, he found out that she hadn't been there. He looked out the door and into the hall, frowning slightly. He was just about to tell her about how she could be a Princess for her kingdom, and that it was decided tonight that she was, if she wanted to be. Which gives me the option to... Wendell pushed the thought from his mind. He had to find her first, to tell her.

He decided to walk to her room, to see if she was there. He made the small stroll to her room, and found the door open to her room. It looked somewhat like a mess in there, the dress she wore that night was on the bed, however the letter on the dress caught his attention.

Dear Whoever finds this letter:

I couldn't stay any longer in the castle. Not knowing that there was a way home, and no one was doing anything about it. These kingdoms are amazing, but I have no place here. If I am stuck here, then who am I? A lone girl from a kingdom so very far away? What do I do the rest of my life?

No, I am sorry. Please forgive me for running off like this. I however, need to find a way back home. I am not needed here, not anymore. Thank you. Please, take the time to thank King Wendell for his hospitality towards me. I appreciate the short time we had together.

Priestly.

No. This couldn't be happening. Priestly must have saw the letters on his desk, the ones he never sent. How could he be so foolish? He had to find her, the kingdom wasn't safe. He learned that himself when he was trapped in a dogs body.

"I'm going after her." He told his guard as he went back to his room.

Priestly was thankful she made it out of the castle with only a few guards seeing her. She felt bad about having to do this, but she did what she could. She figured out the directions she needed to head, and started walking. She avoided the swamp, the one that Virginia had told her about, and took the safe way out of the Castle grounds. It seemed like time was going so slow as she walked, having time to herself, and being alone. It was frustrating to be stuck with herself, in her mind.

Her mind kept wandering to Wendell. She shook him out of her head. She was going home, and would never see him again. He would find a queen, and never think of her again. Thats how it would be. She knew it.

She hear d a twig snap, and looked over, next thing she knew, everything was going black around her, and her head hurt really bad.