Two Kingdoms | h.s

The Map

Iris

I never really thought much about love, until I was forced into it. I thought I would have freedom for at least a week. Now I have 3 days left to live, 3 days left to get the courage to do what needs to be done. 

After I had gotten home, I ran into Kaysie. I had put Blossom back and hidden my clothes to be cleaned later. I knew my mother would see the blood from my wound that Harry so mercilessly pressed open to become fresh. The blood had seeped through my white long sleeve and my mother would definitely notice. I was walking back to my room when I felt someone push me into my room and shut the door, it was Kaysie.

"Woah, what was that?" I asked turning around.

"I uhm- need to talk to you,," she said pulling my arm to sit me down at my vanity as she pulled up a second chair. "Listen, I know how to fix this,"

"Fix...what do you mean? There's nothing to fix,"

"I mean make it so you don't have to marry the Prince," she said and after that, she had my whole attention. Considering she didn't have it before, my mind still filled to the brim with only him. The guy I never paid attention to was now the only thing I could think about. 

"Hey, are you listening?" I gave her a slight nod. "There's another prophecy Iris," after the words left her mouth my head shot up to meet her eyes.

"A-another prophecy, other than the lovers tale? No impossible," I say starting up as I pace back and forth. 

"I did my own scavenging while you were gone, the old archives at the very back of the library. The ones sealed away by a tall velvet curtain," she said using her hands to emphasize. 

"How did you know to look there?" 

"My mother knows this place and every hidden corner, of course, she knew about this one," 

"Well besides that, what prophecy are you talking about," I said sitting down on my clean bed.

"When I was picking up all the different books, there was one farther out than the other. I pulled it out and there was a noise, so I looked behind it and there it was. A map."

"A map, what? How does that equal a way ou-" I said before she clasped her hand over my mouth to get me to stop talking.

"Listen Iris. A map that had a single scroll attached," she said as she pulled something from the back of her apron. An old and rotten-looking map appeared along with a scroll that looked brittle. The scroll was sealed by a gold wax with a crest but not our family's crest. "I read the scroll but I think you should too," she handed the scroll to me and I took a deep breath before unrolling it. 

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The Two Kingdoms Prophecy 

This prophecy entails everything we need, peace. 

If you are reading this sacred scroll, it means it has been trashed and forgotten. We had no choice but to lie about the real prophecy, too many lives were lost. The lover's prophecy is a fraud, they had no other choice. The lover's prophecy grants peace to the land but how long will that last? 

This is not the true scroll, the true scroll was burned. 

Read carefully. There's no turning back.

There is a map, half of one is the Boudoir castle the other is in the hands of the Sares castle. It was torn apart years ago. The Boudoir map has the beginning and on the way leads you to a key of some sort. The Sares map has where the Boudoir map leaves off, but their map leads to the end. Both sides are useless without the other.