The Edge of the Forest

King Robert DeMont saw a woman so beautiful, he had to have her. "Guards go and grab that woman. Don't touch her, just bring her to me!" An hour later four huge guards pull a woman that's handcuffed and shackled into the throne room in front of the evil king. The King spouted" Take her to the bath and tell the maids to get her ready. I will have her in my room soon!" Ramona was screaming and begging them to let her go. "Please King DeMont, please, I only came here to find my sister. My baby daughter needs me. Please don't hurt us. The King fired back" Hurt you? Oh no. I plan on having an heir with you before I give you to my guards. As for your daughter of that dead pig royal guard, well, I could care less what happens to her. Take her away! " The guards took her to the bath and had several female maids, who are terrified of the King hold her into the bath. " Clean her, be sure the King will be satisfied with his pleasure for the evening. Do not struggle again. You will not get loose" The maids scurried along and put her in the bath with rose petals and bathed her. She cried the whole time. The maid brought her daughter ,who was barely over a year old, into the room. Ramona stopped crying holding her child." Don't worry baby. We should never have came south. I don't know how but I have to get us out of here and back north to our own house". She was rocking the baby who finally stopped crying and went to sleep. The guard came back in" You, get up let's go. The King has called for you." Ramona tried hard to break loose the shackles. They were silver and very tough. The guards drug her down the hall to a door. They pushed her through and asked" My King would you like her like this or shall we tie her to the posts." Ramona screamed through the whole thing. He was trying his hardest, but she bit him, scratched him, whatever she could. She finally stopped and thought. "You know I can not give you an heir. When I had my daughter there were medical issues. I can not have another child. So try as you might, you have picked the wrong woman. " She put her head down, with tears in her eyes. Knowing he is probably going to kill her. He growled loudly, "Guard!" His two closest Royal guards opened the door and bowed. "Yes your Highness, how can we be of assistance?" The King was so mad he growled " Get her to the medical center, tell the doctor there I want an answer now! If she can't have children, take her to the dock along with that brat of hers!" The guards removed her and walked her to the Doctor. He took her into an exam room, came out about 30 minutes later. Shook his head no. The Guards took her to the boat house, and the maids brought her little daughter to her. It was dark, cold and damp. She at least was away from the King. "Don't worry my little baby. Momma will find a way. Some how." She had tears in her eyes, but tried to be strong not to scare her 1 yr old lil one. The morning sun shown through the cracks of the old boat house. She heard them coming. The evil king screamed" Open the door! " The guards pulled her out onto a platform made to pull a fishing boat to. There were about 50 people standing around watching. The king took out a huge silver dagger, grabbed Ramona by the hair, and screamed" Let this be a lesson to all of you who piss me off. This beauty, will never be again!" He stabbed her with the dagger and in one push, shoved her into the fast moving water. The Guard asked, "should we keep this one?" He held the child. "Throw that scurge of the earth in too!" The guard looked horrified, but turned away from the King, and slowly, as gently as possible, put the baby in the water. The Rio Grande usually wasn't as fast moving, but a couple of bad storms made it impossible for anyone to live through falling in it. A witch watching thought for a moment, snuck past the guards and transported the baby from the water. She laughed." Why kill it when you can use it!" It was 12 years later and a long way from the south and the Evil king. Bright blue sky with white fluffy clouds above her head. She lays beside a beautiful pond listening to the frogs and watching the dragonflies stop on each flower. She's a cute little girl whose name is Felicia. She had strawberry blonde hair with cute little curls and green eyes that almost look through you. Her mother was not far away. She has been is hiding her, living in a human world. Their world gone long ago. The wars that used to be, have calmed. Possibly not for long. She is not telling her daughter what she is. She wants her to discover herself. To be who she wants not be held by labels. Her father, Donald, a werewolf was killed in the last war,12 years ago. He had worked for the royal family. They said he was protecting the prince. The Royals had given them a nice severance pay. But the loss of her father was hard on them. His pack was destroyed, and he went to work for the Royal family. They escaped with several others. And so they lived in a small house at the edge of town. Today they walked to the end of the road by their house. A Beautiful pond covered in cat tails and reeds on one end and low grass covered bank on the other side that they fished from occasionally. Margurite, her mother, had brought Falicia to learn some herbs and flowers. She was distracted as most 13 year Olds are. Marguerite was collecting camomile and black raspberries. "Come Falicia! We need to do work not fantasize about the clouds and butterflies." " But Mom I already know that all multi seeded berries are edible. And the camomile you are using in tea later after we clean and dry it. When are we going to start fungi? I'm skipping to the treeline to see if I can find any mushrooms, oh sorry Fungi!" Her mother yelled back "Promise not to touch them until you show me!"Falicia heard as she skipped toward the huge white pines with their long needles spread below them. On the other side of the wooded area, stood a boy. Handsome, intense light brown eyes, black straight hair pulled back into braid down his back very athletic. He had snuck out on patrol with his guard Max. Max was a guard of the Royals. He had taken a shift for his brother who had been wounded in practice. Renaldo had insisted on coming. He would be 16 soon. As most kids do, he wanted out of the house. His studies could wait he desired adventure. As for going on patrol he had never done anything like this. His Father would go ballistic if he knew Renaldo was out of his room, not studying. "Renaldo! Don't go past those pines! That is human territory. We are to patrol our side and not stray." " But Max there is a huge pond, with frogs!" Renaldo stepped to the edge of the trees. A little beautiful green eyed girl was coming right at him! He stood very still, maybe she wouldn't notice him. Falicia was skipping and singing. Her eyes covered the ground looking for the tops of brown mushrooms. Shoes? Why do I see shoes? As she looked up, there most Handsome boy she had ever seen. She swallowed hard. Afraid to say anything, her mother might hear. So she walked a bit closer. "Hey, who are you? Are you out learning stuff by the pond too? Have you seen any Mushrooms?" Oh no Max is going to kill him. " I'm Renaldo, what's your name?" "Felicia." She looked down shyly He asked " Are you out here a lot?" "Only when mom, her names Marguerite, brings me to learn stuff and gather camomile for tea." He said to her as he thought of nothing else" Be careful out here." She looked up at him, he couldn't breathe for a moment. " Um, Renaldo, your cute. I've never seen you before." She ran off towards the old women next to the old road. Cute? He had never been called cute! He turned and Max was behind him. "Did you speak to that girl? Tell me you did not! You could compromise our boarder. What if her father is a general or worse. Let's go. I need to get you back to the gardens before they notice you are gone! " He took one look back. She waved at him, so that her mother would not see. He smiled and raised just his hand so Max didn't see. They waved goodbye.