This is a dream I had just this morning I hope you enjoy this short story this is just about all I could remember by the time I got to the computer :3
She felt what needed to be done her Uncle wanted to usurp the throne she just knew it but what could she do no female heir could inherit the throne unless the did the ancient trial of "snow" whatever that meant all the knew is any of the Great Female leaders Had always been The palest white just like Learin Lilly that glowed Even in the darkest tunnels as
she looked down at her dark black skin just like all the others of her Kind born in this darkest land under the earth
She also Knew her 'Mother" conspired to be the New queen at her Uncles side, Oh why does Father have to be so sick why is he leaving me with these awful people
And Why couldent she have been born a boy it would have been so much easier
as it was the queen had been making it so she couldn't try the ancient ritual
not that most would want her to anyways it brings change and fear because the one who would be queen to her people
first must be of the ancient blood line then must go to the surface, this has not been done since the last queen and that was told to be done in a hurry the great 'Sun' changed the young Queenlings pure white it was told that others of her kind stayed dark but more of a light brown then a dark slate gray or a dark black as most her people where now
But then without the current Queens knowledge she had been digging a hole in her bed chamber it was under the great stone desk that had sat there since the last "snow Queen'' in fact she dare say this spot had been dug up before and re covered perhaps to hide it from others that would stop them the only reason she dung here was the wild idea a dream might prove to be correct
A few months pass her father gets no better she can only worry and work secretly on her digging putting the extra dirt into the flower beds that was alone her whole balcony
then one day...
"A Tunnel!" how in the name of the Mother did this get here?
it was a dark and long passage that seamed to slowly slope upwards towards the back of the castle near the dark wall that stood behind
she gathered her things and and some food and covered the hole with the thin slate and rug and began her journey into the darkest dark..
It seams to take forever and so many twists and turns as it would have to be weaving through the castle towards the dark wall she had no idea how long she was down here in this dark place but she hoped to see some sort of light soon
then she reached some sort of door but it needed so kind of odd key what was she to do! she did not know this waited her she rest her face against the door and felt something she knew this door had the same kind of lock on it as the journal fro the last Pale Queen! it was the locket passed down to all the daughters who might have to journey into the "sun" as it said in the dairy's
she opened up the jeweled locket and pressed it into the opening till you could only see the sapphire crescent she turned it and the door began to open! the brightest light flooded the passage now she knew why it had to be such a long way here no one must see the light or they would know
so bright it blinded her as she stumbled out into the light she felt it would consume her
and so it did the light seamed to fill her whole body turning her as pale as the soft moon crystal that hung from the Roof of the dark world
the light seamed to never end she thought for sure she would pass out then she felt warm hands on her as she was lifted away...
She woke with a start where was she! she looked around she was in a bed in a humble looking room with a window light came though this window even though there were curtains drawn
A woman entered 'Ah I see you have woken up I did hear it is hard to come to the surface for the first time I wouldn't know I was born up top" she had a gentle smile and...her skin it was pale! no not like hers but almost it was a soft cream color
the princess started 'I...' but the woman cut her off 'here you must be hungry" and fed her some soup.
Latter it was explained to her that from time to time people found there way out of the darkness and came to the surface to live but only one door was watched so closely and that was the Queens door even the surface dwellers would defer to the pale Queen as it was a sign for the gods that she was the chosen one... no others that stepped out into the light where never pale and white as she her hair had always been white but now her skin and eyes..her Eyes! they where A deep blue now where most her people had Red eyes. this was truly a shock to her the surfacers called her Moonlight for that's what she looked like....now what will I do ive become part of what made the other Queens what they where but what will help me become what I need to be
it had been 700 years since the last pale Queen since then only the men of the realm have ruled and soon it would have troubled times what would happen next she could never have guessed....
 Aereie · Tue Jan 05, 2010 @ 07:30pm · 0 Comments |
