Once in a Blue Moon

Chapter 9.

Rossana wants to suggest a change! Really, she!
"King David, my suggestion is that, you extend Isabelle's punishment for twenty four hours." Rossana says.
Why?
"Any reason?" he asks.
"You cannot set free a person who might have planned to trap us." Rossana replies.
Trap them! What's gone into her?
"How do you know she has come to trap us?" he asks.
"How do you know she has not come here to trap us? We all know she don't belong here, and you know who she is." she says.
"And maybe that's the reason why you are trying to trap me." he replies.
One of the royal authority siting at the left, fourth chair stands up, "King David, I would also like to suggest what Miss Rossana has just suggested you. I think she is correct."
No she is not correct.
"What do you think a 24 hour punishment can bring out of her?" king David asks.
"Her true colors, her partners involved and all." the authority replies.
"Wait, sorry for interrupting, but Rossana you are talking stupid, it makes no sense. You know it was all an accident," I say to Rossana.
Rossana listens to me but she don't answer, she turns away towards David, "David, if you don't want to take this as a suggestion then take it as a request."
"Why? Your suggestion or request is useless. It's better we send this girl out of here as soon as possible." he replies.
"Are you afraid?" Rossana asks.
"I asked you to specify your reason but you did not." he says.
"I did."
"That was senseless."
"But I did specify."
He stands up angry and so do all stand scared.
"I want this girl out of this kingdom today, that's an order!" he says.
"Why did you asked for suggestions if you don't want to agree on them?" Rossana asks.
What is her problem?
"I do wanted to agree."
"Why not now?" she asks.
He takes a deep breath and says,"Ok, tomorrow, exactly at this time, she will be sent back."
"Thanks."
"Meeting dismissed." he says and come down the throne, gives me an angry look and walks out of the court.
One more day in the prison.
The four men come again to take me back to the prison.

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I am siting and staring at small window in the prison. What else can I do?

"Isabelle." some one calls me. I know its Rossana, who else could it be.
"Yes?" I say.
"Look, I am sorry for today but I need to tell you something."
"For your little talk, you asked them to extend the punishment, that's fine, but you even told that I'm planning something and all even after knowing everything, how could you? You are like your evil brother." I say.
"You know, I am actually like David but the point is, the David you see is not the real David." she replies.
"What!" I exclaim.
Ignoring the fact, that I actually mean that she should explain what she just said she says,
"Give me your hand." and raises her palm towards me.
I put my right palm onto hers, she catches it tightly.

Few seconds later.

She leaves my palm.
"Now come out." she says.
" But the door is still locked."
I turn back and sit on the place where I slept.
I still see my sculpture standing at the same place. What did she just do? Now this is what magicians do, this is sorcery
" Make this sculpture lay down on your rock bed and come with me." she says.
"O-okay!" I say.
I pull the sculpture towards myself and make her lay on the bed of rocks and I slowly close her eyes. I must say my sculpture is as heavy as me.
"But how will I come out?" I ask.
The door is still locked. She hasn't unlocked the door. If she must have unlocked the door, that would have been more better.
"Try!"
"How?"
"You can pass through the bars."
"Really!"
"Now try it."
Shall I? What if I get hurt? Doesn't matter. I need to give it a try. This is so exciting.
I move towards the bars and stand for a while, thinking whether I should give it a try or not. I try to catch the bars but my hand passes through it! What! I can really pass through it!

I pass through the bars.
"Rossana, the servants must be seeing everything, what if they tell it to someone?" I ask.
"No one can see you except me. Your body is invisible for a while only and these bars can now dissolve anything, now anything or anyone can pass through them." She explains.
Oh, now I am getting.
"Now close your eyes." she says.

"What now?" I ask.
"Just close." she says. I close my eyes.

After few seconds.

"Open your eyes." I hear Rossana.
I open them, I am at the same place where I reached at first. Same mountains, icy thorns, glass like ice which covers the ground. It indeed is the same place.
"Here, is a magical gate, which David made, through which only the people belonging to this kingdom can pass, through which you accidentally reached here." Rossana says.
ONLY THE PEOPLE BELONGING HERE.
How did I then passed? Do I belong here? No, absolutely no!
And if David made this gate then why was he asking Joseph about how to close, he must know of course.
She is confusing me.
"What are you trying to convey?" I ask her.
" You say you reached here accidentally, true. You slipped. How far you roll down, you cannot reach another kingdom. You slipped from the place called 'Flower Land' didn't you?"

How does she know?
She continues, "The gate connects there.
Since the day you reached here, you must be wondering why people belonging here have green eyes? The answer is: All are under a spell, a very powerful spell."

Under a spell! How is that even possible? Why are people under a spell? How can a spell be so powerful?

"How come you are not?" I ask.
"The only good thing about him is that he never breaks his promise, but he can, so I have to be careful."
"Who are you talking about?"
"Under whose control the kingdom is."
"But why are you telling me all this?" I ask.
She don't answer me.

A big hard rod appears in her right hand, of with the help of magic.
The rod is big, it has sharp edges, made of iron or something more harder.
She stares at me and slowly start to move towards me, unknowingly I move backwards. Something about that rod gives me a bad feeling.
"Why are you coming towards me?" I ask in a slow voice.
She does not respond. I am getting so troubled.

"Sorry Isabelle." she says. Her words increases my pulse rate.
"Why?"
She moves the rod a bit backwards and then she moves it towards my head heartlessly and my head crashes with the rod in no time. The sharp needle like edges go into my head. She takes the rod out making deep wounds on my head.
A nerve in my head starts to shiver, I hear nothing except some silent buzzing sort of noise.
My head aches so hard that I might die today.

Rossana looks at me with wet eyes and then once again hits my head with that same rod.
I fall.
I didn't expect that I'll die because of her.
The truth itself, sometimes is so bitter that knowing it is enough to take your life from you.

My head starts to bleed, my head's skin tears apart making deeper wounds through which my blood rushes out, flowing through my eyebrows and then in my cheeks and finally flowing down onto the ground.
"Some new wounds can make you remember your older wounds. I hope it works" Rossana says.
Those are the last words I hear, then I close my eyes which presses my tears, making them to roll down and they slowly drop down onto the cold ice ground.