Black Wings

By: Lady Danielle

LadyDanielle: I know I KNOW I KNOW I haven't updated in a loooooonnnggg time. I'm sorry, but I never forget a story. I have to admit that I had this chapter for a long time on my computer, I just didn't know how to end it.

Changes

Heavynn has been away from a day now and Esther and the others are awaiting for her to return the next morning. Even though the note said she was all right, Esther and Able couldn’t sleep without knowing where there daughter is. It’s morning; Esther is taking a bath with her secret lover, Father Able.

Amanda is playing in the garden with Lady Catherina watching her collect followers while the rest of the castle prepare for tonight’s celebration. The little girl is wearing a purple dress and holding a basket full of colorful flowers with one white bunny watching her feet away.

“Amanda, good morning, you little brat!” someone calls Amanda and she jumps to her feet because she knows that voice.

She turns to the other part of the garden which is leads to the side entrance of the castle. There stands a beautiful woman with long red hair and wearing a yellow sun dress and hat.

“Heaynn!” Amanda smiles at the site of her sister then takes off running in her direction.

Lady Catherina gasps at the site then smiles before she informs the guards to get Able and Esther.

As for Amanda and Heavynn, Amanda stops a feet away from her big sister cause she realized her sister didn’t have time for her before. Heavynn stands there for a moment to look at her sister which she’s been hurting so much since she arrived a few days ago. A pressure hurts her heart to see what she’s done with her sister by ignoring her. She didn’t mean to do it on purpose but Heavynn needed to find what she was. So, she lowers herself down to one knee and bows her head to her young sister.

“Amanda, please forgive me. I’ve been arrogant woman who was only thinking of herself and not those around her. Including my own sister which I do love very much. Even though I’ve hurt you,” she looks at her sister with tears in her eyes. “Please give me a second chance on being your sister. I will play like we use to and have our stuff doll tea parties. I won’t ignore you or your feelings. I can’t undone the damage I’ve done but I wish to heal it... together...” Before she can say anything else her little sister jumps into her arms and hugs her older sister while crying.

“I forgive you.” Amanda cries nodding her head and hugging her sister.

Heavynn starts crying and take in her little sister gently and takes in her scent again. “Thank you, thank you, Amanda.”

They sit in the flower patches for a few moments before Esther and others came to see with relieve. And as concern parents they are, Esther and Able runs over to Heavynn. As much Able wanted to take his older daughter into his arms he knew it will raise rumors so he held himself back. As long she was here and safe, it doesn’t matter.

“Where have you been? I was so worried! We all were! We had the whole kingdom looking for you, Heavynn. When I found out you were kidnapped I was... I was...” Esther couldn’t explain herself clearly out of concern.

“Mom, I’m all right and here in one piece.”

“You will tell me–

“Mommy, Heavynn promised me for a quick tea party.” Amanda interrupts her mother and Heavynn on purpose. “Before you yell at her can we have our party, please mother?”

Esther couldn’t resist her little girls request so she let both of her daughter have a half an hour of tea time before Heavynn can give information to her and the others.

Once her half an hour of tea time with her little sister she was ordered to speak with Lady Catherina, her mother, Father Able, and Empress Seth. Now, sitting in a chair surround by people who care about her and her safety.

“Heavynn, where have you been in the last couple days?” Esther starts off the meeting.

“In my mind.” Heavynn looks at her mother straight in her eyes without blinking.

“Heavynn!”

“If you didn’t get my letter. It said don’t worry about me and I won’t tell you where I was. Correct?”

“We have a right to know since you caused this whole country to go on a search party for you and driving your mother crazy.” Lady Catherina speaks up.

“She did that herself. I didn’t do anything to hurt her.” She plays with some of her hair and looks for something interesting.

“You were kidnapped by some... some creature!” Able yells at Heavynn with so much anger. “Then you leave a letter with a tracker in the sewer! It could have been forge! You could have been killed or even worse, Heavynn! This hurt me and your mother deeply along with the empress. We were worried and so scared.”

“Check your place! And last time I check your not my father, so stop acting like it.” Heavynn yells at him, looking into his eyes, then looks at the rest of them. “My business is my own. And it doesn’t matter where I’ve been.”

Esther smacks Heavynn across her face and starts to cry. “How dare you say such things! After we worry so much about you. Heavynn...”

Heavynn head was turned by the impact of the smack, and her cheek is red. She holds her cheeks and never faces her mother.

“You mean so much to me- to all of us. We are worried about you and health. You’re not eating and you barely sleep. I demand to tell us what’s going on!”

Heavynn never looks back her, but feels lips giving her away. She drops to her knees out of weakness. “I’m sorry all of you. I now it was irresponsible of me leaving like that while I was under attack...No, I wasn’t really...I...I’m just going through a lot right now. It’s not my studies. Not my fighting. Not anything else in the mind, but my body. Since I was fourteen something has been going on with me. And that’s why I’m searching. I’m searching what is wrong with me, I’m looking for answers. I don’t want help from no one because I know you can’t help me. Only...only my...my...father can help me. These changes just had to come from him.”

Able and Seth start to look at one another then everyone else.