Vlad's Heir

The Dream

After everything that Isi has been told she is mentally tired and after she had excused herself from the table, she heads back to her room.
As she enters she sees Catilina there waiting, but because of all the information she is still trying to choke down she sinks to the floor, starts to talk in fast, short bursts, and also breaks down crying. Catilina can see that Isi needs time to herself so leaves the room queitly and closes the door behind her.
Isi cannot hold herself upright her grief is so intense. Thinking about a family she should remember and can't, a father and mother that were devoted to their children, and a brother and sister that loved her. All this swarmed through her mind and with all the fatigue from crying so hard and for so long Isi falls asleep on the floor.
An hour later Catilina comes back to check on Isi and sees her asleep on the floor, Catilina fetches Mikel and has him put her back into her coffin for the night, but this time with the lid off so as not to frighten their princess again.

I have been invited to attend Sharries engagement party and I am is so excited that I can't sit still for my seamstress who has been working all day on my dress.
When she is finally done, I run from the room down the corridor and take a left to enter the main hall. All I can see is the backside of people that I don't know, all I want is to find my sister so I can sit next to her at dinner.
Finally a familiar face, it's Mikel my brother to be. I walk up to him and take ahold of his hand, when Mikel looks down and sees that it's me, his impetuous little sister whom he has come to adore. He picks me up around the waist and brings me to eye level with him. "What is it mine little Isi?" Mikel asks with confusion, "Is everything not okay, you look concerned." As I explain about wanting to find Sharrie and sit next to her at dinner, Mikel smiles brightly and kisses my cheek, " Do not worry so little Isi, we are to meet up at the table in a few minutes, look for yourself." At this comment Mikel spins me around so that I am pointed toward the door to the dining hall. As I search the faces near the door, I only recognize a few but I don't see my sister anywhere.
"If it helps mine Isi, I will take you myself to dinner, wouldn't want you and that beautiful new dress to get squashed in this sea of people." Mikel says with a jut of his chin and a wink. Lifting Isi onto his left shoulder Mikel walks towards the doors and with each step the motion of his stride is making Isi quezy. After only a few seconds Isi cannot take it anymore and taps Mikel lightly on his head. Mikel stops walking and withdraws Isi from his shoulder and just as he starts to ask her what she needs he can already see that she isn't feeling well.
"Oh mine Isi, I'm sorry I should have thought before I placed you up there." Mikel says with great concern rit across his face his brows schrunched up tight. Knowing that the head cook can help Isi to feel better, Mikel walks her quickly to the kitchen.
Cuddling her to his chest as if she was a tiny baby the hulking mass that is Mikel causes everyone to make room as he walks with a brisk pace first down the main hall and then taking a right at the second hall he walks down three more doors to the kitchen. Flinging the door open the kitchen staff can see he is not here to sample the dinner as he is known to do, the head cook has been notified and is making her way around the fires and pots and all the piles of food that lay strood throughout the kitchen.
Finally making it over to Mikel, Mistress Camia hears all that Mikel knows about what has caused Isi to become sick. Passing Isi over to the matronly woman, Mikel excuses himself and goes back to the party knowing Isi is going to be okay now.
Feeling Isi's head for a fever, Camia then sets Isi down upon a sack of flour and walks over to the cupboards, pulls out a dried herb and is bringing only a single leaf back with her as she has turned and is headed to Isi again. Isi is instucted to chew on the leaf until she feels better. Sitting quietly and chewing on the spearmint leaf Isi watches Mistress Camia return to the dinner.

Stretching out and having her hands hit the sides of the coffin everything rushes back into Isi's mind and she sits upright so fast it leaves her head reeling. Mircea rushes over and helps steady Isi, who feels completely out of sorts. "Its okay Princess, you are safe," Mircea says trying to be helpful to Isi who is shaking slightly.
"What an intense dream, it seemed so real." Isi says with a flurish of hands as she tells Mircea everything she remembers. "Maybe you should talk to Petre, he would know if your dream was an actual memory." Isi steps out of the coffin and asks where she would find him, then after being told that he is in the library Isi has Mircea lead her there.
Only a moment passes after they go into the library and Petre comes into view. Isi motions for him and finds a comfortable chaise where they might sit and talk about her dream.
After going over every detail Isi remembers from, Petre confirms that it really could have happened that way and maybe more of her memories from the past would start breaking through now.
Feeling a bit better Isi decides to stay in the library for a while, she wants to see the collection of books that are here.