FATE

CHAPTER THREE

Queen Ursula's POV
I went out of my son's room thinking about what he had told me. I had to get that young lady out of the castle before something bad happened.
I gave her permission to share the servants' room with them for sleeping. Then I retired to my own room. I took out the oracle's words and read over it again and again. I still couldn't make any meaning out of it so I placed the sheet on my table and went to lie on my bed.
I was soon gone.
But I woke up with a start in the middle of the night. I had had a terrible dream.
It was terrible to me. My precious son and that annoying lady were getting married.
I thought about the oracle's words again but nothing came out of it.
I resigned and fell asleep again.
I woke up with a start again at 3 am when I had another terrible dream. In the dream, that young lady and my son were married and she was even pregnant for him.
I started to sweat profusely and couldn't make out anything that came into my mind but the words of the oracle kept repeating themselves in my head.
"BLOOD AND GORE
BROKEN AND SORE
IN LOVE SHALL FIND
BLOOD OF ONE KIND".
But I was still confused and there was no way that I would allow my son to marry that lady.
" That girl shouldn't be allowed to keep long here. I will send her on her way right now" I muttered to myself as I dressed and hurried out of my room and into the servants' room to sack her away.

Valerie's POV
I couldn't sleep throughout the night and when dawn approached, I was finally able to close my eyes a bit.
But not for long because that silly excuse for a queen came banging on the door and yelling at me to be up and going.
I got up, washed my face, hurried out of the servants' room, out of the castle and into the cold dawn.
I was very happy to leave the castle but it felt like I had forgotten to take something along even though I had taken all that belonged to me. I hurried along on my made which had been kept in the stable through the night unprotected so I wondered the number of stallions that had mated with my made. I pushed aside that thought and galloped through the royal woods, through the village and to my cottage. I reached there at 5:30am, just as the sun was rising above the horizon. I entered my house after putting my made into the stable, took a warm bath, locked up my cottage door and fell asleep once my head touched the pillow.

Prince Elvis' POV.                                4 days later
"What about this princess, mother?" I asked my mother showing her a picture and details of a princess called Lilly. "
Perhaps she will do" she answered absentmindedly whilst liking through the details of the other princesses. She had thought it wise to find me a wife among the princesses of the other kingdoms instead of letting me go out to find a wife on my own.
We started on the afternoon of the day that that young lady left the castle. There were thousands and ones of princesses and none of them had come close to meeting her expectations when we were done looking through them.