Ciyrella

ch 11

{http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWQ1SZdgdvo} Amy and Lettice hid behind a bush watching Edward and Ciyera dance. "Why is she so special?!" - Lettice asked, angrily.

"Who knows!" - Amy said. "I don't know what the prince sees in her! She's not even a known courtier like us!"

"She just appears out of nowhere!" - Lettice said. "She may be an exotic swan but she's a nobody!"

"So why is the prince only giving her his attention?" - Amy asked. 

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{http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ8d8465_VY&feature=related} Edward and Ciyrella sat at the ledge of fountain, talking. "I will be honest to you," Edward told Ciyrella , a little sadly. "I thought I knew of love was when I was bethrothed in Spain. But I have forgotten her when I met you."

Ciyrella looked into Edward's eyes, her heart skipped a beat. \He still thought of her!\ "You have not forgotten me!"- Ciyrella exclaimed. Edward stood up in shock, then knelt before Ciyrella .

"It cannot be! Be this a sweet dream?"-Edward asked.

'"This is but a sweet dream were we asleep in any place," Ciyrella replied, looking into Edward's eyes.

Edward stared into her eyes. "No wonder I heard my heart beat tonight again when I already gave it to you!" Edward stood up, holding both of  Ciyrella's hands; making her stand up too.

"What if I am not who I pose to be?"-  Ciyrella asked.

"How is that possible?"-Edward asked. "You are Princess Ciera are you not?"

"I am her yes. But I am not a Spanish Princess. I am a Navesink Indian from the New World. Culpepper told the truth, I was his fiance. Then when he misbehaved, I fled to Spain while trying to get back home. I was mistaken as a Spanish Princess by the Emperor's mother. I played along to save myself from being alone in a new world!"- Ciyrella weeped.

Edward wiped her tears away. "You are not a princess," Edward told her. "You will be my princess, someday queen. My Navesink princess, someday Navesink Queen." Ciyera threw her arms around Edward. "But you cannot do Navesink tribal dances as queen, you aught to dance as a Christian princess aught to in this land; or Mary will have a fit." Ciyera giggled, and Edward smiled.

"What about The Emperor and Thomas?"-Ciyera asked.

"Thomas will be arrested for escaping the tower, and harassing my future bride," Edward replied. Edward looked at her. "Do not worry about the Emperor. You will be safe once you marry me." Ciyera hugged Edward, who hugged her back. Then Edward stepped away from her. "I could not recognize your beauty, although you are easily recognizable. When I first met you, I could see you were not native of Spain."

"Yea I'm from the new world as you say," Ciyera replied.

"Then you must tell the truth," Edward said. "But perhaps you are one of the deceptive courtiers with a grand act! For my crown"

"No, for I have been little time at court," Ciyera said. "I am not an Englishwoman or so fair."

"There are ways to disguise oneself," Edward said sadly. "It cannot happen that you are not true."

"That is not true," Ciyera replied.

Edward held her arm. "Be you not even true, my heart as your seal will be a relic; for the sweet pureness of the love I bore thee, Ciyrella."

Ciyera held onto Edward by putting her other arm on his shoulder, she pointed to herself. "My heart is your relic if you doubt my genuineness, and I shall leave!" Edward lightly embraced Ciyera. "You are my relic, Ciyrella." Ciyera kissed Edward's cheek, then the clock struck midnight!

{http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxOMCH6rapU&list=PLFCD2F64226477C1D&index=3&feature=plpp_video} "Oh no!"-Ciyera gently pulled herself from Edward's embrace; and rushed into the ballroom from the small corridor of the garden.

"Wait, Ciyrella!"-Edward rushed after her. All of the court watched as Edward chased Ciyera up the stairs through the main entrance. Lettice tried to stop Edward, but Eustice pulled her back.

{http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuyjLznoks8&list=PLFCD2F64226477C1D&index=9&feature=plpp_video}Ciyera rushed down the staircase, a glass slipper slipping from her foot.  {http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlDYjr8DAdE&feature=relmfu} She searched for the pumpkin carriage but it was gone! The moonlight swirled around her form, and she transformed into a peacock. And she took off into the air.

In dismay Edward found she was gone, he stared into the night for a moment; thinking of her. {http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuyjLznoks8&list=PLFCD2F64226477C1D&index=9&feature=plpp_video}Then Edward saw something sparkle on the staircase. He bent down and picked up a glass slipper. He looked at it, then glanced up.

{0:08+ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GKm_SftQaE}When she reached the outskirts of town, the moonlight shone on her again, transforming her back; she was wearing the old dress from the bethrothal. Gaia swooped down and pulled her out of the carriage, lifting it away; leaving pumpkin pieces. So Ciyrellaa walked among the pumpkin pieces looking at the moon and stars, thinking of Edward.

Edward looked at the moon and stars, holding the glass slipper; thinking of Ciyrella.