Suffering for Peace

Reunited, again

When the darkness struck over the sun, guests started to arrive at the palace in their finest clothes. I wore a sleeveless dress that didn't reach to the ground and was open at the front, white comfortable shoes and a golden crown on my head.

Clara: Oh dear you look beautiful, don't bother men looking at you.

Acacia: And the teacher then?

Clara: I didn't say you need to fall for one of the men, that teacher you told me about has something no one else has, don't lose him.

Acacia: But, did you know I knew him when I was younger?

Clara: So Jerry spoke the truth about that man? Now don't even try to lose that man.

Acacia: I won't, Clara, I am going to do what Calarel requested, I will return to them tomorrow.

Clara: That is a good decision of you, dear.

I think Clara is around 70 now, but she is still my half-mother. I greeted the highest guests and they gave me compliments and felicitations. Some brought their son, of my age of course, but no one seemed to catch my eye. I stood at the front where the royal ones always used to stand, I didn't want to mix myself up in the crowd, there were a lot of guests. The other kings and queens had finally arrived and they got brought to the front too.

Dwarf: Queen Acacia, we are glad you found your kingdom back. I am Jodmeal, king of Creman.

Calarel: And you already know me. Jodmeal is the one that cared for your army, their weapons and their fighting techniques.

Acacia: Well, dwarfs are the best ones for making weapons, that has always been. Have there been other wars in the past 5 years?

Jodmeal: No, none. No one dared to declare war on us or others when no ruler was on the throne of Meodor. We have stayed away and broken any contact with the wizards, they had betrayed us all, not only Meodor.

Calarel: They caused falling walls and burning houses. But now, you can reunite us again with them, you have some contacts there.

Jodmeal: She does?

Acacia: Only since this year but they are already close to me. I decided to go pay a visit to them tomorrow, the younger generation there tries to change the adults view on our kinds, some would go far for it.

Jodmeal: That is already great, that is the beginning of it.

Clara: And she let her eyes fall for one of the teachers in that school there.

Acacia: Clara.

Calarel: You fell in love with a wizard?

Acacia: Not precisely, he was just the first one to tell my side of the war.

Calarel: He stooks his hand out first, didn't he?

Acacia: Yes, he did...

Jodmeal: There is no need to shame yourself about that, it can happen to everyone. We already have dwarf-ornisses or elves with wings, everything can be combined. As long as you feel comfortable with your decision, nothing can stop you.

Calarel: Jodmeal is right, I have an ornis in my family.

Jodmeal: And my great-great-grandmother was an elf.

Clara: Just as long as he is the true one for you.

Acacia: But I don't know if he feels the same. What if he doesn't?

Clara: He stook his hand out first, girl, he cared for you when you were in need. Doesn't that say enough already? His heart lies, by you.

Calarel: But you still need to be careful.

For the rest, the ball was a great success. Yes, some men asked me to dance but I got away from them quickly. I helped clean everything up and got my rest for the night.

I prepared for my visit to the Wizard Kingdom next sunrise. Jerry had taken 3 books out for me to bring to them, out little deal. I put them in a leathern bag and was ready to leave.

Clara: Just don't cause any trouble there, they need to get used to your royalty too.

Acacia: I know, I still need to get used to it too.

Clara: Their kingdom is on the right if you come out of the palace, always fly straight.

Acacia: Thanks, Clara.

I walked outside the palace and took off. I wore the dress from yesterday, I just like it, and my crown on my head. It took a bit of flying but I got there in 10 minutes, without using my crystals. I landed on the grass outside, no one was outside, there must be lessons currently. I quietly walked through the halls and to the Great Hall, no one was there either, lessons again. I decided to go look for Newt and Lizzie in their lesson, I hope they don't bother that.

I found Newt in his classroom, Lizzie was here too. I waited to go in and listened from behind the door.

Lizzie: Could Acacia still come back?

Newt: That depends on how far she has flown away and if she stumbled upon other kingdoms.

Girl: It is just Snape that caused her to break out. You know her side of the war too and it has already reached the young adults out Hogwarts.

Newt: There is something I must say about Acacia, I have ... met her when she was younger. I was interested in her abnormality that I visited their palace every week to help her. But at the age of 12, I got commanded by Dumbledore to don't return the next week to there. I even had to erase every ornis' memory.

Acacia: You know, you could have told me that earlier. You forgot to erase the one of Jerry, the one that holds the guestlists in the palace, he told me yesterday before the ball.

Newt: You ...

Acacia: I got shot down in the Elf Kingdom, I told them who I was and they brought me back to my kingdom. I got informed about what happened in the past 5 years and got crowned queen.

Newt gave me instantly a hug.

Acacia: But seriously, you could have told me earlier.

Newt: Yes, that would have been a good idea. What is in your bag?

Acacia: Oh, these are books with our view on your creatures, I thought you might use them, we don't need them anymore. But, you need to make a pen with infinite ink then, Jerry needs one.

Newt: Dumbledore still has some of those, we could ask him to give you one.

Acacia: Then my work is done here. I am just kidding, I am staying the whole day.

We went together with the children through the books and found some interesting things that they didn't know about yet. In the next lesson, we did the same but with some older blue ones. Everyone student was happy that I had returned, actually visited but they thought I would be gone, forever.