Black Crown

Chapter Three

Siren's head felt like lead from her thoughts while being marched into a castle. The stone towers were daunting and breathtaking at the same time. The bridge leading from one end of the town into the castle felt like a portal.

They brought her to a meeting room with round walls and a theater stand, finally untying her hands once they were at the center. She looked around the room to the noble surrounding whispers.

"Why am I here? "

"Are people always so rude where you come from? Manner my dear girl manners. As you are addressing the court of Melindar. Asking for your spellbound transportation will not throw us off from the truth." The voice was harsh and shreked of indignity.

"Why are you here? That is truly a question we should be asking you. Such a figure with no wings falling to the forest unscathed. What else could we possibly think but black mythica.

Collective the court stared as if Siren was an abstract art piece whose concept was not yet discovered.

"The universe likes me? A fairy godmother? Rapunzel and her mythica hair? I honestly do not know. "Siren replied with all the sarcasm a sixteen-year-old could possibly hold.

"So, you claim that not a single drop of black mythica has come from you. Impossible otherwise we would be looking for a corpse then finding your body. With a ringleader turn the circus of a court was addressed.

"I vote we --- I sincerely hope that you were not going to start a vote of an important nature before the leader of the Ouro party would like you. For such an act is.... regrettable." Swift and cut throat was the voice whose origin presented a lady outfitted in a simmering gold dress with long hair accenting her face. Step by step the court seas parted, making way as she came through double French doors on the right.

Ringleader Malos scoffed at the accusation. "My good lady you are mistaken, I was just suggesting that it should be put to a vote of where and what we should do. Black mythica is not kind to our Kingdom. Our Queen, For her Reign is great and would be able to see how this being is obviously a ploy form the Rebels. She must be a summons form underneath how else could she survive such a fall??

Malos gave a look trying to retain a losing battle.

Well that is such a tale Commander Malos, but I must ask if you have gathered such information would you happen to know said creature as you would call her. Name?

There was complete silence at the rebuke but commander Malos's face turned so red you would have thought he contracted sunburn.

"Well her name is.... Well we believe that she is... does it even matter?

"My name, so the question does matter. In fact, you must even bother to ask me to show your bluntness and drag me into a kingdom that I know nothing about further development. Good sir. Siren turned to the Ouro leader.

"My name Milady is Siren Coroas and I am not quite sure where it is but I know that I am far away from home.

"Well that shall not do. You are in Merlindar, home of the Lindarins, I am sorry for the uncouth way you were brought but you must understand that our people's safety is a top priority. Black mythica has destroyed our sources of food, displaced our families and murdered our Queen.

She spoke to whom is assumed to be the second in command, "Contact him, we shall heed his services. "Then turned with a stern look.

"A shower perhaps and some fresh clothes shall be in order. We will continue this discussion after dinner. Troubling times or not, it is required of us to be able to uphold our manners at the very least. You will of course have an armed guard."