"What is this paper?" Charity stared at the wrinkled, yellowed, rolled up paper that was lying on the table.
"Your grandfather wrote this. This may be the cure to all the moral issues in the kingdom," the King answered. He unraveled the paper, and this is what it said.
THE THINGS NEEDED TO BETTER THE LAND
IN ORDER TO BETTER THE LAND, THE THINGS THAT NEED TO BEEN SEEN MUST COME FROM THE H____ IN THE HEAD. THE LAND NEEDS A_______, C_____ G_________, I______, H______, T_______, AND THE GREATEST OF ALL, M____.
"These mysterious words," Charity pondered. "What could they mean? What are they? And most importantly, how are these things attained?"
"My daughter's coming back!" the Queen whispered proudly to her husband. "See that? No more head aversion, thinking of nothing good. Now she is paying attention to the paper, studying! We might restore her sooner!"
"While you are doing that," she spoke aloud, "we are going on our wedding anniversary tomorrow morning. We will be riding the famous Blue Whale Cruise and we will be home by evening tomorrow. In the meantime, we would like you to solve this letter and crack the code. But for now, it is time for bed. Good night, sweetheart!"
"Good night, Mother and Father!" said the princess as she gently nudged her parents and went off to bed. But all that was on her mind was the mysterious note.
So maybe the thing that begins with an H on the head is my horn, and maybe the greatest quality is magic, since unicorns are magical, she thought in on her mat. Oh well, maybe when Mother and Father come home they can explain the meaning of it and see if I got it right, she assumed as she drifted off to sleep.
Little did she know that she would have to figure out the code herself.
YOU ARE READING
Hopeful Hooves: A Unicorn Friendship Tale
FantasyThe word "unicorn" comes from the Latin word meaning one horn, so did you know that not every unicorn with one horn is a horse? It can be a donkey, an antelope, a deer, a goat, or even a rhinoceros? So some have existed in the past, some still exist...
