A Friendship Lost

Prologue

Ophelia's Pov

The first time I saw my baby girl I was amazed by her beauty, I knew I wouldn't let anyone or anything come between us she was to be a power of the kingdom, one day a strong minded queen to follow in my footsteps, she was perfect. The day of her 2nd birthday was when it all changed, it all turned for the worst... Cecelia, my oath sister and protecter came to me with her child. "My dearest I have bad news, we are being invaded" her face told me it was no small matter, I knew that whoever or whatever was invading us was bad, they would put up a fight and probably win. "There are certain measures we must take to ensure her dark majesty" at those two spoken words, her dark majesty the only trace of hope left my body, if her dark majesty was to invade our entire kingdom was doomed, we had no chance. "Does not get hold of the power of this continent" my eyes widened thinking of what would happen should her dark majesty ever get her hands on our power sources, on the necklace of unity. "I believe our best bet would be to divide up the necklace hiding the charms far from each other, in places only our daughters could ever reach, it's the only way" I hated the idea of separating the charms, to be honest I had no idea if it was even possible but I knew she was right, we had to try. But Cecelia was not finished "there is one other thing that we must do protect the line of queens" I could tell without looking in a mirror that my face had deepened into a questioning frown "and that is?" I replied. "I just know you'll hate this" she said sighing. After a long pause she spoke again a sorrowful tone to her voice. "We must swap who we are, I must become quelren  and you the faithful servant, she has no clue about the blood oath that we took and this way I will be the one killed, not you. She probably knows about the bloodline so she will most likely try to kill the child of the queen, if she did kill your daughter it would be a disaster, because you know as well as I do that the leadership and magic only passes on to the first daughter, if she dies the entire continent would go into utter caos. We cannot let this happen we both know that. If my plan works I will be killed, and most likely my eldest daughter but you should be able to escape with your little girl and hopefully my youngest as well. This is horrible but it's the only way" she was finished and I was crying the tears flowing freely down my cheeks, I hated it but deep in my heart I knew that she was right. I nodded my head unable to bring myself to actually speak agreement to such a horrific future.