Wings of fate

Chapter 3

Damn my luck. "Yes indeed, Rosalinda" As I was still shaking with pain Chaol, the king came closer to me. With each step he took, the library's atmosphere seemed to change and became more suffocating. Dain help me. Why can't I move, what is this pain for? "Maybe because you ripped a page from the library Rosalinda? Did you consider this?" How could I know I wasn't supposed to do that?!

My shaking stopped with a loud thud that came from Chaol's hand. I looked up to him and realized that he used his power on me. Though I didn't really know what he did to me.

"So who are you now, little thief?" I spun all the answers I could give him to get out of this in my head but then I remembered that I was pretending to be Eleni, Jaiblynn's sister and king's daughter.

"What do you mean 'who are you'? Of course I am your daughter, dad." I replied.

Chaol started to laugh loudly and I realized I made a mistake.

"Did you think some facetailor work would fool me? I knew from the minute you stepped inside the dining room that you were not my daughter." Well, that's not good.

I tried to sit up and hide the book behind me while thinking about an answer to give but he noticed what I was doing and snatched the book from the floor before I could reach it.

"Let me see what we have here that was so important that you even tried to steal it." he mumbled while looking at the book. When he realized what that book was about he turned back to smiling.

"Are you a powerless faerie trying to do spells from a book? Don't you know that if you don't have magic you can't do the spells either?" Well, that I didn't know. As I was about to answer him the doors to the library opened once more and this time Jaiblynn came in.

"Oh hi dad, hi Eleni. What are you guys doing here, the fest is about to start everyone is waiting for the offer" he said, looking genuinely surprised to see me here. I'll give him that, how could he foresee that his human capture is exploring their library.

"Hi son, though you are wrong about Eleni because this is definitely not Eleni but someone pretending to be her. Now I wonder where your sister is and why you dressed someone else like her?" How did the king knew it was Jaiblynn who asked me to do that? What is happening here?

"Okay sorry, I admit it was me, dad, so please let that poor girl go. Eleni went down to the city again and I didnt want her to come in more trouble so I asked Rosalinda to pretend to be her for only this night" I looked to Jaiblynn and asked him if he was telling the truth from my mind but he didn't answer me. He wasn't even looking at me. I guess I made him very mad.

"So who is this Rosalinda and you still didn't explain what she was doing in my library with a spell book." That made him look at me but I wished he didn't because he was clearly very very mad at me.

"Rosalinda is also from the down city and it was me again who asked her to take a spell book for me so that I could take it to Eleni. You know that she still hasn't got her wings so I thought maybe she could try some spells to see if she got her powers." He saved that well I'll give him that.

"Eleni is the shame of our bloodline and if you continue like this you will go down with her. Now put this book back to its place and come down to the fest before ruining my night furthermore" Chaol said and went out of the library with hard steps.

I let out a breath I didn't realize I was holding and looked guilty to Jaiblynn. He took a handful of powder and blew it to my face. And with that my tailored face disappeared.

"That is not necessary anymore" he said, still not looking at me.

"I am sorry, I ruined your plan" I replied feeling actually sorry.