The Runaway

Chapter 26

"What's happening? I get that it's weird of her to know we're elves and she isn't and could somehow talk to us, but she could be another creature or half and half."

He sits on top of the dresser. "You've gone dumb. She was twitching and seemed as though she wanted to kill. It wasn't right."

"Oh."

He hands me the honey and takes out the fruit. He offered me some. I take a handful before laying on the bed. Eating berries and drinking away my worries with honey. I shall go into a honey coma and wake up at home.

"How long do you think it'll take for us to get home?"

"A while."

"We walked for days." He hums. "How far did we get?"

He gets off the dresser and walks beside the bed, pulling the bag out from under. He takes out the map and studies it for a while.

"About seven kilometers."

"That isn't too bad. How much longer do we have to go?"

"304."

I roll over, facing the windows. The buildings across the street are ugly too. I'll never get home. My whole family will die of old age before I get there.

"Why can't you teleport us there...?"

He sits beside me, laying on the bed. "I don't know what your kingdom looks like."

"I'll draw it and show you the picture."

"If only it worked like that."

I close the honey and curl into a ball. This is so sad, I'm so sad, and tired- oh gods, I'm so tired. Please, let us get this over with as fast as possible before I crawl in a pit and give up on everything.

"How did I get taken from my kingdom and brought to yours so fast?"

"Teleportation."

"Did you help?"

"No, didn't know anything was happening either till the morning after, when I met you."

"Was I pretty then? Before I became... whatever I am now?"

"Sorta."

My sadness won't go away. I give into the sleep that's been hollowing me out since the beginning. I don't think anything will get rid of it till I get home. The sunlight shining through the giant window fades to black.

*Time skip since nothing will happen in her sleep. How are y'all doing so far?*

"Wake up, princess."

The sun blinds me. I rolled over. I haven't slept enough; I need at least another twenty years and that might be good enough.

"Whaugh?"

"How long do we stay here?"

He had me thinking something horrible was happening. I roll back over and bury my face in the pillow.

"Two nights..."

"Oh, sorry."

Now I can't sleep. How rude. I roll back over, my back cracks a lot. The honey bottle falls on the floor. My poor child.

"What happens in the book?"

He looks at me, point blank.

"She dies in the end."

"That's horrible."

He nods. I get off the bed and walk to the magical rectangle on the wall. It's supposed to play shows or something. After looking at it for a while, I see a button and push it. The front changes a different color before something pops up.