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Winter P.O.V.
At the sight of the approaching boys, I gasped.
"No, oh no, Aednat, come on!" I yelled desperately, clutching her hand, I pulled her to run.
"Where are we going?!" She cried.
"The castle! Where do you think?!" I snapped, and she promptly shut up and ran faster, tripping over her skirt.
"Come on, slowpoke!" She yelled.
"Coming!" I huffed, my breath clouding the air in white puffs.
My dress was muddy and ripped, my heels where broken and caked with dirt and sprinkled with a light layer of snow.
Aednat didn't look any better, probably, but in the woods, her dress blended in and I couldn't tell.
I huffed and ran, even though I had no clue why we were running. Finally, we made it to the gates after what seemed like eternity.
Snow all over Aednat's shoulders, she was shivering.
"Get in Aednat, change and meet me in my room!" I ordered, and without a second glance, I shoved her through the gates, and then through the doors. I ran down the halls, watching the corners af is a wrong move would send a chimera after me, hearing my broken heels splotch on the rich marble floors. I reached my room after forever, and threw open the door, and slamming it closed, ran into the bathroom, and pouring a bucket of water on myself, I shook out my hair in an undignified, and doggish way. I slipped into a blue nightgown and slippers, making it look as if I'd gotton out of a bath and waited for the knock. After hearing the distinct sound, I raced to the door, and ushered my twin iin her matching hightgown inside.
"What the heck were you doing?1 What happened?!" I cried, literally, trying to hold back my urge to curse at her.
"I'm sorry."
"You're sorry?! That's it?! What the heck happened?! Don't I deserve an explanation?!" I yelled.
"Keep quiet!" She muttered.
"Keep quiet?! I'll keep quiet when I get an explanation!" I thundered.
"Okay, okay. See, after the funeral, I remembered that I had a fight with father, and I never apologized. I was so devastated, I went out in the pouring rain and cried in-in agony. Then, I realized I had powers. I don't know exactly how but I somehow know you have them too, and that our parents knew." Aednat sighed.
"What-what?!" I stammered.
"Yes, I-" She began.
"Thanks for telling me Aednat, " I interrupted. "But I want to be alone right now." I said quietly. I let her out of my room, clsing the door on her sad face.
She had eight months to tell me, and she didn't. She had forever to get me to understand. But she didn't
Thought rung in my head as I ran to my bed, diving into the covers, holding up on of my prized belongings that I always kept on my nightstand.
A locket.
A present, from my mother.
When I was seven, my mother gave it to me, and said that through it, no matter what, she would always be with me.
I opened it slightly, then whole. A picture of our family, painted on a tiny canvas, and the other was empty, mother had said it was meant for the one, the one that would have my heart.
"Mother." I whispered.
"Mother."
"I love you." I said.
"Why did you leave me? Who did this to you? I- I-" I began another statement, but didn't finish it.
Tears fell.
One.
By one.
By one.
Into the empty heart they went.
Where they were supposed to be.
"There's a place in my heart for all of you, mother, I haven't forgotton you." I sighed, closing the clasp. Staring at the canopy of my bed, now blurry with tears, I fell asleep.
"Mother!" I yelled, watching my mother and father, seated on their golden throne.
"Mother! Why did you leave me!? I've missed you so much!" I yelled, running up to the throne. The golden angels and butterflies circling the throne cam eto halt and turned into black dragons and witches, hobbling towards me, growling and crackling with knots of bone.
"Get away!" I screamed.
"Tell them to get away mother!" I told her, but she just smiled.
"Honey, I can't you failed me. I should've known you would. You could never be queen. You're a big stupid failure." She cackled, motioning to the creatures to continue their onslaught.
"No! Mother-!" I began.
"Too late."
With cackles, the room rippled, and suddenly, everything went black.
I woke with a start.
"Aednat!" I gasped out loud, galloping out of my room and into hers, staring at my suprprised sister.
"Aednat!" I said. "Come to my room!"
I literally dragged her to my room, and sitting her down on the bed, I joined her with my history book.
"What, you're teaching me history?!" Aednat growled. "Then I'm leaving."
"No wait! There might be a way we can reach our parents!" I gasped excitingly. She sat right back down with a determined look on her face.
"How?"
"I found this!" I said, Flipping to the back of the book and ripping the small notebook out of the compartment.
"Woah!" Aednat gasped.
"There's a table of contents!" She continued. I satched the book back.
"Page 34!" I cried and scrambled to the page.
Fountain of the Dead.
Go here at the eleventh moon, and the dead may speak to you.
Meet many dangers, but you might get there. The fountain with need three things to work- A four-leaf clover, a rave feather, and goodwill.
I have never been there, so I have no clues for you, I am sorry.
"That's it?!" I sighed.
"But it's a clue! And here's a map!" She said, ripping a page out before I could interject. And indeed to was. It went through the mountains, and then into a valley, and then across the sea to a tiny island... called the island of the dead.
"You ready?" She asked.
"Get packing. We'll leave tonight, because today's the fifteenth day of the eleventh moon, and we need at least fifteen days to get there." I declared.
"Then we'll be back fifteen days before the new moon cycle!" Aednat concluded.
"Yes we will. Let's pack!" I declared, and Aednat scampered off.
I grabbed seven travel dresses, a bar of soap, boots, a coat, a sleeping roll, and a tent. I snatched a knife from the hunter's room down the hall a few weeks ago to cut off my split ends and forgot to return it, so that went in. I was ready.
Tonight, I would fly.
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