A Soaring Love

Chapter 7

"Princess Faelee!" Faelee could hear Azlowes voice following behind her but she did not stop running. "Faelee wait up!" But she did not. She thought she knew where she was going, she was going to the garden but her feet had other plans. Faelee found herself in the middle of the clearing where her mother had been murdered. Emotion consumed her she crumpled to her knees and started to cry.

"Mother!!!!" She cried out. Azlowe came stumbling out of the trees. He knelt down beside her and placed his hand on her shoulder. She turned to him and collapsed into his arms and sobbed. "I just miss her so much!" Faelee managed to say through sobs.

"I know you do your highness" Azlowe said with compassion in his voice. "I wish I could do something or even say something I just don't know what to do or say I'm so sorry"

"You are helping so much just by being here Azlowe" the princess said with sadness in her voice.

"Um... your highness?" A scraggly voice came from the tree line. Azlowe jumped to his feet ready to fight.

"Who goes there!" He said with a firm voice.

" it is I" said a weasel as he slunk out of the shadows. "I come in peace, I actually need to get something off my chest that the princess needs to know."

"What is this thing you need to get off your chest?" Azlowe said still in defensive mode.

"Your highness" the weasel said bowing down. " do I have your permission to talk to you?"

"Yes you may" Faelee replied.

"I don't know if you recognize me but I was there the day your mom died"

"Now that I think about it you do look familiar" then realization crossed Faelees face. "You kidnapped the baby squirrel!"

"What?!" Azlowe put his fist up.

"Wait wait! Yes yes I did the king put me up to it he payed me to do it the guards were in on it and everything I think even Knaruku was in on it too!"

Faelee felt weak "what did you say?"

" Your highness, a couple weeks before the attack your father got together with the guards that followed you and your mother, Knaruku and myself. We all met in this very clearing. Your father paid me to kidnap the child. He also paid the guards to chase after me so that they would be distracted when Knaruku attacked."

"And Knaruku" Faelees voice was shaking she was scared to have asked about him she knew the answer as to why he was in the meeting she didn't want to be right.

"Your father paid him to kill your mom." The weasel said with hurt in his voice. " I'm so sorry your highness. I felt so guilty I was actually hoping to run into you because I just had to tell you."

Faelee couldn't believe her ears. "I knew something was going on! Why would he have her killed?!" She started to get angry but hurt filled her heart more than the anger did.

"He said that she would have stopped the wedding from happening and he did not want her to do that."

Azlowe turned to the weasel "thank you for telling us."

The weasel took a bow "I am truly sorry your highness. But your father threatens us all that if we didn't take the money and agree that he would feed us to Knaruku"

" I understand thank you for telling me" Faelee said her voice trembling. The weasel scurried off into the woods again. "Azlowe I need to go to a special place but you can not come in. It is a very safe place hidden away from Knaruku and anything bad. It is a place where I feel closest to my mother."