Truth Or Fiction

Chapter Sixty Nine

Henry tilted his head as he noticed that the red ribbon around the scroll was brighter than the other ribbons.

"You okay?" Claudine asked, noticing his hesitation.

"Just wondering about that," Henry told her, gesturing to the brighter ribbon.

Claudine shrugged. "Only one way to find out."

Leah

"You're joking, why is this scroll about her?" Kitty asked, shaking her head.

"How dare you! You'd think a Princess would have been taught how to act around those of a higher station than her!" Leah exclaimed.

Kitty shrugged. "It's a valid question."

"And Leah? You've been stripped of your titles," Kit said, narrowing his eyes. "And even if you hadn't been, there was nothing wrong with Kitty's question."

scowled as she surveyed the area around her.

"Oh I'm sorry. Is the Isle of your trash not suitable for you?" Celia scoffed, rolling her eyes.

It had been a couple of months since she was unceremoniously exiled from Auradon and there had been no effort to get her off the hellscape that was the Isle.

"You actually survived the Isle for more than a day?" Uma asked.

Persephone sighed. "Be nice Uma."

"I am being nice Aunt Steph. Like the Charmette said, it's a valid question."

To make matters worse, there was no one here who recognized her as the Queen she was.

"Huh, for once the Ancient Harbinger of Doom is right," Chip said.

Lucas sighed. I feel I'm going to regret asking but what do you mean?"

"She said no one recognized her as the Queen she was. Was. Since she was stripped of her titles, she's no longer a Queen."

"You know that's not what she meant right?"

"Let me have this!"

Instead the Isle dwellers were content in shunning her and making her get by with minimal shelter.

"Considering you were content in making us get by with minimal food, I think it's only fitting," Harry said with a glare.

No, but they were fine in showing differential treatment toward Mal. One of the brats she had seen by the docks the day she had arrived had even called her captain when talking about her.

"Yes, because she's earned the title and acts like one unlike some people," Henry said as all the Rats in attendance leveled a glare at Leah.

As if the little spawn knew how to captain anything. According to Natalie, Mal was floundering at even the basic of tasks that a royal would know.

"Yes well Natalie's definition of floundering and my definition are two very different ones," Benji said, his eyes growing hard at the mention of Natalie.

Of course, that would be an adult royal, she thought with a small smirk.

"That's the point," Benji said with a slight growl.

Phillip shook his head and glared at Leah. "You're sick you know that? She's a child and you're taking pleasure in her pain!"

After all, we don't come out of the womb knowing what we know. But I would have thought months of watching Mal fail and embarrass him would have been enough to make Ben see that he was better off with my Audrey.