Page 14 of Royal Lies

It was as if she already knew this would happen. As if she was bored of this jailbreak attempt.

So theywereher rescue party then.

A voice as heavenly and lively as an angel of glee danced past my ears catching my attention as my head whipped back to the door, hungry for another fix. "Damn it now they know my name, Eli. And here I thought I was going to be all like mwahaha, and now remember your killer Everetta Von Gildenstin!" The voice said, the voice of that girl, Everetta.

Everetta that name sounded just as angelic as she was. I wanted to run. To go to her. To see her again. Just as I made a move to do so, the prisoner‘s arm struck out like a cobra hunting its prey. Her slender fingers closed around the pulsing throb of my veins. She shook her head as if reading my thoughts. As if she knew of my intentions, of my unexplained longing.

"You will see her again." She spat as though she hated the fact.

"But first you must remember. Remember who you are. Find a potion, or learn how to make it. Recover your memories, I know you can. Until then don't come back here, and don't go near her, please." Looking into her purple irises was like staring into a whole galaxy. Yet despite their beauty horror still pierced their depths. The girl looked over at the door again as if it was about to explode open any moment from now. The grunts ofguards falling and the sounds of metal clashing might as well be the ringing of bells on a wind chime compared to the rushing need overtaking my senses. I can't let her get away this time.

We both stared at the dull dark board of oak because I knew, and I think she did too, that the girl and the boy were going to come through it this time.

"Oh please, that's not even your real name!" The boy's prime and proper tone came through the wood frames once more, closer this time.

A pause, grunts, something heavy dropping, then, "Ya, but my actual name is way too long to say." The girl's voice echoed into the cells again. Everetta, her name was Everetta.

I pouted, longing to go to her. To be with her. No, I needed to be with her and make things right. Fuck, I moved but the girl pulled my hand back her scrawny fingers still gripping my wrist like it was her lifeline. She sure had some strength despite the skeletal figure she sported with her gaunt cheeks.

"You will see her again." The girl repeated this time more determinedly.

"I promise."

Something about her sorrowful pitiful eyes but confident glare told me I should trust her, despite not even having spoken with her for more than a minute.

"But go, return to your Father's castle... We'll come within-" The girl closed her eyes as if to remember or to see something. Though I wouldn't know how she could see with her eyes closed, just as another explosion sounded. Perhaps with her eyes closed I could free myself.Maybe I could finally have what was mine.I tried yanking my arms free but it was like pulling a sword stuck in a stone.

"-Two weeks, give us two weeks, and you'll see her again in two weeks. Now please leave, you must go."

The girl stood closer to the bars now. I hadn’t noticed she’d moved, when did she move?

As if she knew I wouldn't leave until I saw the girl, Everetta, again something purple coasted over my body.

I looked back once more at the wooden steel barred doors, my heart aching for one last glimpse of her golden waves. For beyond that very wooden barrier was her. But, something told me I needed to listen. Like a whisper in the wind telling me to leave, that my wish would come true if I gave it time. So instead of following my body's wishes, I nodded instead. Before I knew it I was in my mother's prepared guest suit for me just as a guard burst into my room.

"Your Highness, there’s been a breach in the castle. Please, follow me to safety." The guard panted out as if he’d been running to get to my room. I agreed, already scrambling to prepare a viable excuse for my mother if the guard noticed my black attire as I stood in front of my bed despite there already being a lump under the covers.

Chapter 5

Luna

"Hey! I wanted that!" The girl, Everetta, exclaimed, pointing a figure across from her in the small circle the three of us had huddled into. A fire was lit in the middle to cook their food. The boy, Eli, rolled his eyes as he glared at her taking a bite of his, or her meat.

What are they fighting about now?

I rolled my eyes at their banter.

How in the world are they always so childish?

They always argue over the most idiotic of things. I had recovered all my memories about two weeks before my supposed rescue, and right in the middle of a theft, at that. I had been caught in broad daylight all because of some returning memories, which I didn't even want. I wished I could just forget it all. But, oracles always remember their past life, no matter what, which was how I was able to predict my prison break from the Summer Queens prisons. I had a vision of being trapped in a cage, of a boy and girl with bright blond hair causing havoc. It would have been stupid of me not to put the pieces together when all the events after my capture aligned.

"Ghhaa!" The girl, Everetta launched herself at the boy, Eli. Her hands curled into claws as a feral look entered her golden Griffin eyes.

"Give it back!" I swore if she screeched like that against my ears again I would kill her.

At this point, the meat was nothing but dirt. The bronze-colored fat was covered in soil.

How could she still want it? She might as well just eat the very soil from the ground. Honestly, why are they even still fightingover it? How childish are they to continue fighting over spoiled meat?

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