Avalon Wonders.

Chapter Ten.

Amy's POV.

I watched Cassie leave the ballroom with Eric, one of the royals. I hope she is able to pass this stage of the test.

I quickly left the corner I was standing in, briskly walking through the the hallways, I know this halls like the back of my hand. This palace is my home, I have been living here for as long as I can remember.

I am a Lot, we are the advisors to the queens. My mother was the former queen's Lot but she died during the last raid that occurred. Since when I was a little girl, my mom had always taught me the ways of a Lot. Now that I am of age, I can fully assume my rightful position but unfortunately the queen's baby got kidnapped immediately after she was born. During childbirth, some complications arose so she lost a lot of blood making her weak. Due to this, she was unable to perform a protection on her baby as it is usually a tradition that immediately a princess or prince is born, the queen is meant to perform this spell to  help protect the baby but due to the queen's health at the time, the spell had to be performed by another but at that same time, our the castle fell under attack and during the commotion, the baby was kidnapped and the king was killed. 

So, for the last eighteen years or so the princess has been missing and the queen has been unable to recover fully. Some say she hasn't recovered yet because of the loss of both her husband and child while others say a spell was cast on her because for the last 18 years ago the queen has been in a sleep like state. Pitiful actually.

Anyway, we have been searching for the princess ever since but we haven't found her. After 5 years of searching, the queen's long lost junior sister finally came out of hiding and she has been our saving grace. Some years after she arrived, with this plan to help us determine who the real princess. At first, random girls from different kingdoms would come here claiming to be the  went by the numbers started decreasing till there were none.

One day, she decided that we should expand world but the problem were going to find her in such a We didn't know how she locked like but one thing was for sure, she had blonde hair with green eyes. This helped to narrow our search down but it didn't make it any easier.

Initially I was confused, how do they would have blonde hair and green eyes? It was one of the older maids that told me that the very first cast a spell millions of years back on herself and the generations to follow that every first born child of every queen ruler of Avalon would have blonde hair with green eyes.

I didn't believe at first but as I was walking through the hallways of the kings and queens, where their pictures were hung, I realized that although they all had different facial features, and figures, one thing stood out, blonde hair with green eyes. But it didn't end there she also placed a spell on her Lot, at first people referred to it as a curse because the spell was that every Lot following her lineage that all her children were to all be girls. And till this day, all the Lots of the past queens have all been girls and so have their children. So technically I already know the gender of my future child.

The search for princess continued we would pick any random girl, but with blonde hair and green eyes, monitor her for a while so we know her character, most of them were either too vain or had bad manners or not smart enough, the list went on. The fewwho managed to pass the first stage, weren't too lucky during the second stage which Cassie is about to go through.

Personally, I didn't like this stage,  was too violent but Stella, the queens sister assured me that the reason for it was genuine. The plan was get a volunteer from one of the royals, Stella being a very powerful witch as she is a descendant of the royal family of Avalon. The royal families of this kingdom have very strong magic that is unbreakable so once a spell is cast it can only be broken by another royal.