Where The Path Leads

Chapter Four | Storiez0

It had been two days since Eugene had given Varian the task to translate Rapunzel's stroll. He should have translated it by now right? Right! But he hasn't.

Varian had spent the two past days working his mind until the point were he wouldn't even feel if some had kicked him. Varian's body was dead and his mind was asleep, unlike the rest of him.

Varian heard a small knock on his wooden door as his mind jumped from its zombie-like state. "I'm coming!" He yelled as he swung out of his chair, a chair that Varian had actually designed and invented himself.

He ran over to the door, a smile on his face in an attempt to hide his sleep lack of sleep. As Varian opened the door his blue eyes widened, his mind running into a state of panic. "Queen Genevieve! Ah, hi?! What are you doing here? Not that I'm saying you can't be here, because of course, you can, you own here".

"Are you okay Varian?" The queen asked kindly, raising an eyebrow at the young boy's behaviour.

"Yep! Yep! Totally fine, great actually! Everything is perfect your highness".

"Great, because I need to talk to you," Genevieve said as she walked into his room, Varian freezing up as he realised he left the scroll on his table.

"Queen Genevieve wait-"

"What is this?" Genevieve asked as she grabbed the stroll. She titled her head slightly, but not enough so that her crown would fall off as she tried reading the non-german writing. "What language is this?"

Varian panicked as he grabbed the scroll from the queen, "Nothing important your highness."

Genevieve grabbed the scroll back from him, "That wasn't my question Varian..." her brown eyes widened as she saw the drawings and she automatically knew the answer to her question. "The Demanitus scroll."

"Oh no..."

"Varian where did you get this from?" Varian looked down, is he really going to have to lie to the queen? Yes, he was. As Varian opened his mouth speak she spoke, "It was the princess', wasn't it?"

He looked down, "No..."

Genevieve didn't believe him, her eyebrow remained raised as she waited for him to answer her honestly.

"Maybe... Yes..." He looked up at her, Varian couldn't tell what she was thinking. Was she angry, proud, trusting or betrayed? "Queen Genevieve, Princess Rapunzel just wants to help, Eugene wouldn't have trusted her if she wasn't."

"I know."

"You do?"

Genevieve nodded, "The princess was the reason I had came to talk to you. You are the smartest person in the whole of the seven kingdoms was it was merely common sense that Princess Rapunzel would go to you for help with her quest."

Varian blushed as rubbed the back of his pale neck shyly, "I wouldn't say I am the smartest in all of the seven kingdoms."

She sighed, "I believe in you, and my son. If you two believe that Princess Rapunzel can help our kingdom than I believe in her. Edmund doesn't see clearly when it comes to the moonstone, more so since it took his father. He isn't going to agree with me helping you but I know that you can save Sydeia (Sigh-die-rah)"

Varian was speechless and honestly a little confused by what the Queen was trying to say. His heart beating proudly as the Queen spoke of him saving his kingdom, the only thing he had ever wanted to achieve. He smiled brightly, his light blue eyes shining. "I don't understand what you are saying?"

"There is a book, it's a sort of translation key, that my husband keeps concealed in a heavily guarded room. If you can get into that room, you can translate the last part of the scroll."