The New World

Lauren runs through the Halls of the Castle, her feet echoes as she slams them down on the the cold stone floor. Lauren's arms tighten around the child in her arms and she risks a glance behind her to see if they have followed her. The baby let's out a small cry and Lauren helplessly looks at her tear stained face. She rounds the corner that leads to the kitchen, and she can faintly hear the guards shouting at her to stop. Their shouts and yells only making her run faster, desperate to keep her child safe from harm. Lauren comes to the door of the pantry and yanks it open to hide inside it. Once she steps in, the smell of freshly baked bread invades her senses. She quickly takes out the key her mother gave her, and recits the ancient stricpture.

Nothing happens. She let's out a curse and looks at her child's golden eyes. "Baby, I just need to borrow some. It's safe I promise." The child doesn't respond, instead just closes her eyes. Lauren let's out sigh a close her eyes as well. She recites a different spell, one her mother taught her when she was to marry her husband. A spell to steal one's power.

The air around her thickens and it suddenly becomes hard to breathe. Gasping for breath, she finishes the spell and blue dust flys, surounding her and her child. Lauren looks down at her beautiful golden eye girl and lays a gentle kiss on her forehead head. The baby let's out a cry and Lauren closes her eyes as the blue dust takes her and her baby to another world, to another life, away from any harm that may touch her baby girl.

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When Lauren and her child are forced to leave the only world she knows, it feels as if all hope is lost. Alone and stranded, Lauren must find a way to make a life for her only child. But will a girl with kind eyes make the transition easier to cover come? New, unexpected feeling start to surface, and Lauren finds herself with more than one problem. A problem she doesn't know if she can handle.

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