Chapter 12

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"Here, drink." The prince holds his hands up to me, they are filled with lake water. I take a sip, my empty stomach growls. I finish the water and look up at the prince. I lean forward and press my lips to his. We pull apart and he smiles at me.
"Getting arrested was the best thing I've ever done." I say, he laughs and kisses me again. Then a noise comes from the forest around us. The prince pulls me close to him.
"It's probably just an animal, like a squirrel or a-" Suddenly three knights on horses charge out of the forest. They have us surrounded. One of the knights charges towards me, his sword stretched out in front of him, simply an extension to his arm as he reaches for me. Then suddenly the prince jumps in front of me and the sword slides cleanly through his chest and out the other side, the tip pokes me in the stomach leaving a tiny dot of the princes red blood on the front of my dress.
"No!" I shriek. A propel myself forwards and land right beside the prince, I cover my body with his and sob as he takes his final breaths.
"Why would you do that?" I ask him.
"I had no choice, I love you." He responds.
"We always have a choice." I say as the prince dies in my arms.
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Slowly I begin to wake up, I was in a dream that took place long ago but I can't remember what it was of. When I wake I try to stand but immediately realize that will be impossible because I'm tied to a chair, and completely surrounded. Gil, Stachey, Mrs.Gold, Jane, Ian and Jordan are there. My mother and father are not.
"Meerfameeh?" I try to speak, but my mouth is gaged.
"Stachey, remove the ropes from the girl." Ian orders. Stachey does exactly what he's told, his movements are almost robot like. I'm untied and get up to run, expecting to be chased and caught but nobody tries to stop me. There's a door at one of the room that I run to, I push it open and have to dig my heels into the ground to keep from falling into a chasm that is in front of me. I turn around and see I'm surrounded by Stachey on one side of me and a giant, possibly endless chasm on the other side. This is what they wanted me to do, they wanted me to run. I take a deep breath as Stachey walks towards me. I step backwards as far as I can until I'm kicking small pebbles into the chasm. I wait and listen but can't hear the pebbles hit the ground. The chasm is very, very deep.
"Your mother is with us, you will join us too." Stachey says.
"Or what?" I ask.
"Or I'll push you of the edge of that chasm." Says Stachey.
I gulp and see that the group of my captors have now crowded behind Stachey and are watching.
Stachey begins to count,"10, 9, 8, 7..." Suddenly my mother rushes up behind him.
"Stop!" She shouts. I sigh with relief. My mother wasn't actually with them, she was a prisoner. Then I see my dad coming up behind my mom.
"Mom watch out!" I shout. But my dad doesn't try to attack her, instead he puts his hand on her shoulder.
"Stop." My mother repeats, "I'll do it."
"Mom?!" I shriek as my mom approaches me robotically with her arms outstretched, it's almost as if she's hypnotized.
"Mom, please no, trust me you don't want to do this." I plead.
"I have no choice" Says my mom. Tears are streaming down her cheeks and mine.
"We always have a choice." I say and I jump into the chasm before my mom has the chance to push me. I close my eyes as I free fall to my death.

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