Adventures in Candor: (Book 1) The Lost Queen

Prologue

    "  I was four when it happened. I was playing with my kitty, Zozo, and I heard a noise. It was mommy screaming i didn't understand at the time, but Zozo began getting franic pulling on my hair and nuzzling my hand to get in bed. I didnt understand, so i followed the screaming. Mommy was covered in red water, i didnt see daddy anywhere. Zozo began meowing so i picked him up and we ran to my room and hid in the closet, behind the boxes. Thats where you found me.
   
      I didn't know much, all i know is im here. "

     The psychiatrist looked at the girl, her hair seemed to change colors as it grew, from light chestnut to a dark chocolate brown. Her eyes a beautiful milky chocolate, but at the moment her eyes swelled up with tears.

  "When can i go home? I want to go home to mommy and daddy!" The girl screamed.

   "Annabelle, we have talked about this. Your mother is dead, your father killed her. You arent going home for a long time" the doctor spoke.

   The nurse came in, an younger woman, her eyes looked cold and anger-filled. Her skin a pale grey, she looked at Anna, she looked as if she did not want to be there.

    "Heres your fucking pills you little brat. Choke on em." The nurse threw the pills at the doctor. She left the room slamming the doors.

     The doctor held the pills in his hand, "Here Anna, take your pills, and you can go back to your room to see your cat."

     She unwilling took them, knowing that if she didnt she wouldnt get to have Zozo in her room and she wouldnt get any sleep, much like the first night she arrived. She steped out the room, the empty dark halls felt suffocating. The other children were in their rooms, which was normal at this time. Once in a while though, she might catch a glimpse of a child going to the cafeteria for a midnight snack.

   Sadly, not on this night, her room was in the far back of the orphanage. The only good thing about this place was, everyone got their own room. That ment Anna could decorate her room anyway that she chose.

  Anna loved that, at home her father never alowed her to decorate her walls. Her favorite part about having her own room was that her cat Zozo could stay with her. She loved Zozo, and Zozo loved her. They stayed together, they never left each other sight for more then a couple hours. They would; eat, sleep, play and often go on mini adventures around the orphanage.

      Zozo never ate cat food though, he and Anna would share the same food. Anna started feeding him that while he was a kitten, she said it made him feel human. She often dreamed of what it would be like if he was human. They could go on real adventures, they could meet many creatures, like higkins, or Pinorgons.

   She often drew many of these in her notebook, some sketches even taped onto the walls.

    Once Anna got into her room, Zozo jumped off of Annas bed, running toward her almost grinning. His dark back fur, looked like a shadow, the only white parts on circles around his eyes, around his paws and the tip of the tail. If you looked close enough, a deepish red plagued his fur in swirls, however, you can only notice if he allowed you close enough to him. Usually, he was a solitary cat, never really allowing anyone but Anna to touch or hold him in anyway.

       He seemed to act a bit weird today, however. His bright yellow eyes seemed to glisten in the night. As Anna picked him up, he became more affectionate then usual. Was something wrong?

      Zozo licked Annas cheek, which he hardly ever did. Anna noticed a small light comming from a vent on the wall in her bedroom. She was curious and reached her hand into it. She felt a small object, she pulled it through the vent.

     "Look! Zozo a key! What is it to?" Anna spoke to her kitty. Her eyes lit up. The key seemed to be glowing. Is that even possible?

   Attached to the key, was a note. It was all scribbled in letters and numbers that seemed almost unreadable. But Anna could make it out.

    The note read:

         Dear Future Prophet.

If you are reading this, you must feel unneeded in the relm you are in. If that is the case you must be a relm bender. The only one left in existence. Which would mean we need your help. Please, i dont know who you are, or which of the 7 relms you are in. Please, come to the land of Candor. We must talk about somthing extremely important. Take this key and wait untill the moon is full, hold on to the key, and dream. Speak the words you know well, when time comes, you will know.

     As Anna read the note outloud Zozo sat and listened. He looked up at Anna, his eyes pure and yellow. He seemed to understand her words, and has been through it before.

   The moon would be full tomarrow. How would she be able to get home? Although tempted, Anna didnt want to go. Zozo however seemed to beg with his eyes.

Would she get the courage to go? Or would she be to affraid?