Leila
Sage rushed to me, and when she said the words, "A Faerie has escaped from Sugarland '', I thought two things... 1) she trusted me to help her in this situation and 2) A faerie had escaped from Sugarland and therefore entered illegally and fled. But why? "How do you know?" I Idled, tapping my fingertips on my palm. "I saw him." She eyed me carefully. "And you didn't stop him?" This is why I needed to be queen. I knew to do something and not just watch. "I wanted to see what he would do, where he would go." She said, "And?" my tapping was now becoming digging, as my nails worked their way into my skin. "He took a boat and sailed off into the night. He thought he was pretty clever, stalking around my throne, thinking he would get away with it." She scoffed. "He did get away with it!" I shouted in her face, blood dripping down my palm. She recoiled like a child scorned.
"What do we do?" She asked, still in the same recoiled manner. "We go after him." I gritted my teeth, compiling a plan in my head. "Now?" She uttered behind me as I stared out at the ocean. "Soon. Let me talk to some people first." I grabbed her sleeve to pull her along with me, "Come on, you're going to fix your mess."
Later on at the bar after we had devised a plan to go after this escaped Faerie, we discovered it had been a royal and would be of no use to do anything. Sage had already made a truce with them, not to go into another way and I was going to abide by it. If they didn't care, neither did we. The only consequence was our lost boat, for which they offered to lend us someone to build a new one. Bullet dodged.
"So are you going to tell me what you were doing all those years?" Lester was giving me another chance to explain myself after the last debacle in the bar, and I had every intention of doing that. "So you know as far as me running away. And I told you about not enjoying being a mother..."
"Yes? And what happened next? What happened to the love of your life?"
I sighed, rolling my eyes, "I feel like I'm done with this chapter of my life, Lester."
"Yes, but I need you to fill me in so I can try and understand your point of view and help you rebuild this kingdom."
I shook my head, trying to rid the fowl memories that came along with my words. Lester and I were sitting in an open field, where butterflies and faeries fluttered in unison and birds tweeted around us. I loved this place and was starting to find it hard to believe I ever left it. "It was all romance until Sage was born. I mean, it was a definite downgrade from here. It was dirty and the clothing was one in the same, but we were together and no one cared that I was a princess. And I mean, they really didn't care. I was treated just like any other commoner by everyone outside of my husband. I was willing to stick it out and raise his child, until I started to hear whispers of him talking to the other men about it like I was nothing, when he was outside working and mixing with the other men. I thought it couldn't be true, until I followed him one day when he was preparing for war. And I would be damned if I was going to stick around and work like a common hand and take care of his child while he was away, if he wasn't going to give me the respect we started out having for each other... I was a princess. That was it. I didn't wait to hear his side of the story, or even tell him what I had heard. I disappeared into the night."
"And then what happened?" Lester asked intrigued.
"Then I ended up in another place. I wanted to be anywhere that people weren't. I knew I couldn't come back here either, so what other options did I have?" I picked at the grass in front of me like a child ashamed of their actions.
"Where was this other place?" He mused, eyeing me carefully.
"It was somewhere about a day from here." I bit my lip, remembering the barren land that I craved and needed at the time. "Now that I'm back in Sugarland, it seems like an awful place in comparison to here. I did need it to grow, though, so I'm not sorry I was there."
"How did you find that place and what did you do there?"
"I practised my magic and built my skills. It was a good learning curve."
"How good did your skills become ?"
"The best. I think I could take down anyone." I smirked proudly.
"Then that's how you are going to take down your daughter."
