JINX

Chapter Five

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Kingdom of Aurelia

They called her Princess Lorna the white because of her fair and unblemished white skin, the people around the borders had given her a nickname calling her the Snow White

Her mother had been dead since she was birthed and her father had remarried instantly not wanting her daughter to grow without a mother's love

The new Queen Atria the fair had been the most beautiful maiden in her time but she was even a more beautiful mother and for the first eighteen  years of her life Lorna had never felt motherless

But that all changed when the queen purchased the biggest and most beautiful mirror from a Gypsy woman passing through the kingdom, then she became vain, always staring, never looking away, she became more and more enchanted with the strange mirror, always talking to it and never leaving it's side

At first the servants pitied her thinking that the queen was merely concerned about age waning her beauty, buy soon they began to fear her as they saw the change of her behavior, on more than one occasion they had caught her worshipping the strange artefact

The whole kingdom soon began to fear for the queen as words spread around about her unusual obsession

Fearing the increasing civil unrest and agitation in the kingdom the princess took it upon herself to find out the cause of the queen's ailment

Quite she snuck into the queen's chamber hiding herself  in one of  her closets, she watched and waited patiently until the queen arrived

She watched as she gently unfurled the mirror from the tarp covering it and slowly she began to chant out strange words

"Asamath, kes lebab ja magab neetud peeglis, ärkab üles ja ütleb mulle, kes on neist kõigist kõige õigem " she chanted on and on

[Meaning in Estonian: Azamath that lieth and sleepeth within the cursed mirror awaken and tell me who is the fairest of them all]

Black smoke began to pour out from the mirror much to the young princess's horror and she stifled the gasp threatening to escape from her lips, for the fear of detection

"I told you that you are ugly" the mirror snarled "you are always going to be ugly as long as your stepdaughter lives"

Her stepmother winced in pure emotional agony as the demonic presence tormented her

"Bring her to me and I'll set you free, I'll give you freedom from my hold and give you eternal youth and beauty all you have to do is to being her to me" it snarled

"I cannot" she sobbed on the floor "I love her like she is my own please do not make do this" she wailed sobbing uncontrollably

The black foggy mist began to grow thicker and thicker uncle the princess could make out the pale outlines of monstrous figure with eyes glowing like red hot coals

"Choose" the demon snarled "you or the girl"

"My life is forfeit" she sobbed out

"Very well then" the demon roared

It's eyes glinted with intent malice as it rose to fire a killing blow, the princess couldn't just stand there and watch her die, so she burst through from the closet

"Nooo!" She yelled angrily "you will not touch her"

"Alas" the demon hissed  "my beloved is come and what adoring flesh she possesses, I will enjoy it ultimately"