Queen of the purple flame(Revised)

V. Exile

Winter 1518

In Lucille's eighteenth year, one evening she was sat in the Sessorium using her handheld mirror to mirror message her parents. But she couldn't make a connection, either they wasn't near any mirrors or someone had smashed them deliberately. She was getting really worried about them, but decided to sleep on it and put her worries to bed.

In the morning she tried the mirror again to no avail, she asked the mirror to scry her parents at that precise time. The mirror shimmered with a bright purple light and Lucille saw the most horrifying image, her parents were being dragged by armed men into a clammy musty dungeon, "NOOOOOOOO!" Lucille screamed the mirror began to fracture at her touch fuelled by her rage.

"I need to find the Queen at once; she would know what to do!" She thought to herself, "Mutatio Vestimenta!" She snapped her fingers and her nightgown transfigured into a purple hooded cloak, then she ran out to find Brody to get an audience with the Queen.

Brody was just as worried as she was when she told him, He did his uppermost to get an audience with his Queen mother, but it seemed she already knew what was going on, she always knew things before anyone else. She summoned them to the Palatium, as it was a matter for the Magistri of Magus Council.

So together hand in hand they vanished in a puff of purple and black smoke, as they had advanced their magic to the highest level of the rank of master, it was only a matter of weeks before they graduated from the school of magic arts and they will be able to start their new lives, though Brody will have to take up the mantle of Crown Prince and Lucille wasn't sure what she would do, maybe she could set up shop selling potions and poisons, it was her speciality after all.

They were standing outside of the council chamber; they were greeted by Brody's manservant Boyd who appeared in a puff of yellow smoke seconds after them. He was clad in a bright yellow coarse jacket which had the white dove insignia embroidered into the fabric.

At the doors of the Great Council of Magistri of Magus stood two royal guards in white gilded armour, their swords crossed to bar the way. Then the doors swung open magically and Brody and Lucille were announced before Velthra the White Radiant Queen of Wizitch.

They walked the marble floor in a room they called the Praetorium Speculorum (The Hall of Mirrors) as there were so many mirrors it was a way in which the White Radiant Queen forecast what was happening in the world, it was also held for council meetings.

Queen Velthra sat on her throne at the head of the council in a circle with all the five Magisters seated in a circle, there were once more of them but their number had dwindled in the great mage wars with past Kings of Oakencrest in a bid to wipe out all mages.

The Queen adjusted her white satin gown which had tiny little diamonds embedded into the gown which made the gown shimmer, her platinum tresses tumbled down to her shoulders with her silver diamond sparkling crown that matched her gown in radiance, as she waited for the council meeting to commence.

Brody bowed to his Queen Mother and Lucille curtsied before her, as the council commenced, the Queen smiled as she took in her son's attire, but her thoughts were interrupted by Lucille who in her agitated state yelled "RIGHT WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT MY PARENTS?" the Queen looked serenely at Lucille "My dear, they are in grave danger, my mirrors tell me they have been charged with suspicion of treason, on the justification that they conspired with us mages to assassinate the King of Oakencrest and that they were harbouring a mage!"

Lucille grimaced at the turn of events, "Then we must help them!" pleaded Lucille tearful, "I am afraid we can't do that. It is the council's conscientiously duty to keep our existence a secret from mortals alike. As long as we reside here they can't impairment us, but there's no knowing what they would do if we step outside our realm." explained an elder Sorceress, she had long dark brown hair, and was dressed in brown robes and a cowl, she was Magister Beamstia the brown, she had great wisdom and had the power to call upon beasts and tame them.