Suffering for Peace

I lost

I got waken by Clara pulling open my curtains.

Clara: Rise and shine, dear, your first day has officially started.

Acacia: It is 8 in the morning.

Clara: A queen's day starts at 8. At 10 you need to be present in the political building, 12 at a dinner with the Hobbit king from the kingdom between the dwarfs and the sea, at 2 you will be riding to the Elf Kingdom to speech there about your return and in the evening a ball will find place.

Acacia: I am not even dressed.

Clara: I was just joking dear, we know no Hobbit Kingdom and to be honest, you don't need to speak, that is only for special days. We don't know politics that good and a ball, we already had that 2 days ago.

Acacia: I am glad you are joking, I would have survived this day else.

Clara: But you will get 2 guests at 10, 2 special guests. And umm ... I need to tell you one thing, I should have done this earlier.

Acacia: What are you talking about, Clara?

Clara: There is ... something about you that, anybody else doesn't have. You see ... we, as ornisses, are more different from each other than anyone tells you. We are powered by a will in our life, but ... you one got lost when you got captured by those wizards. And that ... took your happiness away.

Acacia: But I still have happiness inside of me, I felt it went I finally got out of that cage.

Clara: No, that is hidden pain. And a queen without happiness isn't a queen anymore. People will turn against you once they find that out, your colour will start to fade away over time. The yellow of happiness ... will turn into the grey of sadness and emptiness. You will lose control and by the end ... you won't be yourself anymore.

Acacia: All of this, for nothing?

Clara: You should make a decision: keep going on like this and cause a war between the royals and the inhabitants, or disappear into nothing and let the kingdom like it is. I only tell you this for your good, not to hurt you.

Acacia: No ... I understand ... it is okay ... I know what to do, and to put something up from years ago.

I dressed with an emotionless face in my royal robes and left the castle without anyone noticing. I went ahead for the Wizarding Kingdom, alone and with tears in my eyes. I had passed 2 people mid down the road on the ground, but I could see who they were, I can't stop this. I have to save the world, all these kingdoms. I landed on the grass, no one was outside although it was almost noon.

Snape: So, we meet again, don't we?

Acacia: Just do what you have to do, it will spare the cost.

My wings had started to turn grey as the man got closer to me and pricked his wand into my neck as fell to my knees. Students had come outside, they might have seen I had come, but not for what they thought I would. The grin on the man's face got bigger as my wings were fully changed in colour and one by one my feathers started to fall out and vanish.

Snape: I have waited all this time to finally end it all and make the wizards the winners of the war you all caused.

Acacia: One thing, before you do it. Newt gets the crown after this, and Lizzie will become the princess. Never, I have been appreciated by you, never I would ever get it. I lived like I wanted to live. Take my crystals as your price, payment for all the destruction we have ever caused to you. Keep teaching the children about how dangerous ornisses, dwarfs and elves are, they will become you then and only listen to you. A crown for yourself. Now go ahead, it will last short for me.

With two words, a flood of darkness pulled over me and I took my last breath. I fell before him on the ground as my wings fully vanished and my hair became grey too. That man immediately searched for my blue crystals and laid them all in his hand, looking with a big smile at them.

Newt: We are too late, Lizzie, I am sorry.