Chapter 1 The Queen

I finally reached the hall. Queen Catalina was sitting on her throne, going through some papers. Her dark auburn hair was spread out over her shoulders as a sign of her pureness. She looked up, her sapphire eyes curious. I bowed low, my red hair shifting forward as I did so. Queen Catalina nodded, assessing my manner. What did she see? Was I fair or dark? Bold or docile?

“Your Majesty.” My voice ringing in the quiet palace.

“ May I ask whom you are?” She asked.

“Jane Rochford, Your Ladyship.” I said proudly.

“ Ah-ha! Another Rochford girl!” She said, “ Well, what have you come to ask of me?”

“ It is my powers .” I said quietly, lowering my eyes.

“Care to elaborate?” She remarked satiricly.

“My weather changing abilities have failed me.” I said in the same small voice.

“I can tell, you entered my hall looking not like a proud girl as usual, but like one who has lost something dear to her.”She said, “ I can honestly say that yours is not the first.”

“There are others!?” I asked eagerly.

“Only three,” She said rolling her r’s, “Kit of Allaway, Airaline of Castalina, and Crystal of West Woode.”

My heart stuttered as I heard the names of my friends as if I was hearing them from the bottom of a pool. They were going through the same thing.

On the way home, I started thinking. What can I do? How can I help my friends? Suddenly as if someone shouted it at me, an idea came to mind. Wouldn’t my mother, the Queene of Faries, know what to do?