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Starring Reyna
Guest Stars of Hylla and Circe

It had only been two months since the sisters arrived at Circe's island, and Reyna was still getting herself acquainted with her surroundings. All the girls were super-nice to her, and she could eat all the cookies and sweets she wanted. Hylla had to work and train, however, but that was okay because she didn't have them for long. And it gave Reyna time to play games such as ring-around-the-rosie and stella-ella-oh-la with the other girls her age.

The island was really big, and sometimes the girls would pretend to be princesses discovering a new land and they'd found, wandering down the hallways of the main building and walking along the sandy beach. But then the real princess Circe would come and take them away for their beauty treatments.

Reyna loved Circe. She was so kind and compassionate towards her and everyone else. Even Hylla admitted that they were better here than at home. And every time someone new stumbled across the island, they'd be seen the next day wandering the halls as the newest addition to their little family, or…

Actually, now that Reyna thought of it, the newcomers either stayed or mysteriously vanished. When she asked Hylla about it, she replied that they either went to their homes or to a new life as a new being. She wasn't sure what that meant, but she assumed it was something good. New life, new being… sounds very motivational.

Another thing about the island—every girl younger than or at the age of six years old had her own pet mouse. After arriving, Circe had presented Reyna with a cute little brown-and-white hamster she had named Bunny. He was really cute and lived in a nice cage in her apartment. Bunny would sometimes scratch at the walls as if he wanted to be let out, but Reyna knew he was just a baby and familiarizing himself with his new surroundings. All the rodents of the island were special because they weren't nocturnal, which was nice because Reyna could play with Bunny during the day.

One morning this little girl in particular arose really late, as the night before she and her friends had discovered a secret cove at the far end of the island, and got super excited about it. Hylla and the other older girls had found them passed out on some rocks, fallen with exhaustion.

She checked the clock and was alarmed to find the time. "Oh no!" she cried dramatically, kicking off the covers until they landed on the floor. Her bare feet pitter-pattered on the cold ground as she ran over to the washroom. She grabbed her toothbrush and scrubbed her front two teeth for five seconds, then tied back her glossy black hair with an elastic as she tried to rinse her mouth. The result was not pretty.

She raced over to the closet and pulled out some shorts, pulling them on underneath her pink Hello Kitty pyjama dress. She pulled the dress over her head and replaced it with a clean Disney Princess shirt. Her feet slipped into her sandals next to the door and she ran outside, headed for the secret cove to meet up with her friends.

She met one of her friend's older cousins in the hallways. "Hey, Reyna," she greeted her with a warm smile. "Where you going?"

"Secret classified information!" she shouted without slowing down, her words slightly muffled with the hair band held in between her teeth. (She was organizing her tresses into a relatively neater ponytail.)

"Well, did you have breakfast?" the girl called out after her.

Reyna shuffled into a U-turn. "Secret classified information!" she shouted again, headed back to her room.

Breakfast was usually left in a small compartment next to each apartment. (Ha ha. That rhymed.) Reyna hustled inside, placing her right index finger on the scanner to be admitted entrance, and went right up to the dumbwaiter without closing the door. Two trays were left in there—one stocked high with delicious and nutritious breakfast meals, and one empty except for crumbs. Hylla had obviously already eaten. Reyna grabbed her tray with both hands and carried it over to her unmade bed. Bunny was scratching at the cage again, making a huge racket.

"Not now, Bunny," Reyna scolded him in her cute little-kid voice. "I'm late." She opened a container to find juicy and perfectly cut apple slices waiting to be eaten. She picked out a piece and munched on it, staring at her hamster.

Then she realized something.

"Oh no!" she yelled, leaping off of the bed quickly. "I didn't feed you last night!" She ran over to Bunny's large bag of hamster food and quickly grabbed a handful. She opened the cage door to place it inside, but in two quick seconds Bunny had made a heroic leap for freedom and scampered outside. Reyna gasped and fell backwards in surprise. She could only watch in horror as her beloved pet raced out the apartment door she had left open in her haste, out into the hallway.

"Bunny!" she cried. Quickly she got to her feet and followed him out the door. He was already halfway down the corridor. "Come back!"

But the hamster didn't come back, and instead he turned into a door at the end of the hallway. She raced after him, entering the room without thinking of punishment consequences. There were rows and rows of fancy-looking tech stuff with complicated looking wires and buttons and controls. One wall was entirely devoted to screens, showing live feed of different places around the island. One displayed the spa, another the beach, another the lounge.

But Reyna didn't care for any of that. She wandered down to the end of the controls searching for her lost hamster. But he was nowhere to be found. She sighed miserably.

"Looking for something?"

Reyna spun to find Circe standing there, holding Bunny with two hands. He remained motionless in her grip, and the only sign that he was alive were his terrified eyes that darted back and forth.

"Oh, thank you, thank you!" she cried brightly, taking him. "Thank you, kind Circe! I was so worried. Don't ever run away again, Bunny!"

"I gave him a small lesson so that he doesn't," the witch told the small girl. "I hope you don't mind."

"Not at all!" Reyna decided. She rose her pet to eye-level to get a better view of him. Bunny seemed a little more distant, but that was fine. He was alive, after all. "I'm so sorry for the trouble, Circe."

She smiled. "No worries. It was my pleasure."

Reyna glanced around at all the equipment. "What is all this?" she asked.

"Security," she replied. "To make sure I know where to head whenever a hamster escapes."

Reyna giggled delightedly. "This is so cool! What does that big red button do?" she asked, pointing with one hand at the last control on the keypad.

The witch shrugged, grinning. "Care to find out?" she asked slyly.

Reyna nodded happily, and Circe took Bunny off of her hands. She then skipped over to the button and pressed down on it. It was harder than it looked, and it took both hands. Soon afterwards she heard a click.

"What now?" she asked.

Circe grinned and pointed up at the TVs wired on the wall with one perfectly manicured finger. There, on one of the screens, could two missiles be seen headed straight for the water.

"Where are they going?" Reyna asked.

Circe crouched down to her level. "You see those two boats in the distance?" she asked, and the little girl nodded. "Over there."

Reyna opened her mouth to reply, but onscreen the missiles had reached their target and beautiful showers of red and orange flames could be seen as the boats sunk.

"So I just blew up those ships?" Reyna asked. She didn't ask it in a horrified matter, but in a curious one. She found nothing wrong with what she did.

"Yup," Circe replied, handing her back her hamster. "And then all the people on that ship are going to come over here to us for help, and we'll give it to them. They'll join our lovely happy family… if they like it or not."

Reyna wasn't sure, but she thought she saw the witch's eyes flicker toward Bunny. And she grinned.

Reyna is so cute and kiddie and innocent! I love my own work!

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