Kingdom of Magic

the beginning part two

Movada sat and pondered on a plan. He laughed to himself. “I know I can trust them. They are too scared to do other than what I bid them.” He said aloud as his white Persian cat entered the room. Sydney sauntered slowly toward the throne like chair.

Movada picked up Sydney and methodically stroked his fur. Sydney purred and looked up at his master. “Is it right and good? You ask.” Movada laughed to the cat. “My response to that is. I really don’t care.”

Kyle sat down at his kitchen table. He looked around his little, one-room, shack. He placed his elbows on the table and let his head fall into his hands. “What am I going to do?” Kyle thought. “If only father were still alive. I wouldn’t be in this mess in the first place.” A tear slipped between his eyelids, leaving his emerald eyes, wet and bloodshot. He raked a hand through his hair and stood.

“God momma, where are you? Were you killed in the dungeon like father? Or just taken out to let rot somewhere inconceivable?” He thought for a moment. “I’ll get it back! Don’t you worry about that. The Kingdom will be back in our family’s hands.” He was strong and sure. “Someday.” He added solemnly. Kyle lifted his head and stared through the window with sightless eyes.

Tivico watched from the distance. “Poor bastard.” He knew the feelings, of someone who had been through a conscious hell. His blonde hair fluttered in the breeze, as he watched Kyle in his devastated mood. “I’d help you if I could. Same as I helped your father.” He said to himself. “Unfortunately, I’m nothing more than a slave now.” Tivico figured that it would do him no good to watch Kyle. Surely, he wasn’t going anywhere in that state of mind. Tivico found a spot in the hay to lay his head. His lean, muscular body was not hard to hide, in the hay.

“You actually think that he will do it?” Shaddock asked with a laugh.

“If I did, would I be talking to you?” Movada snapped. “Yes or no, I want Kyle dead.” Movada moved next to Shaddock. He grabbed his tunic in his fist and looked into his eyes. “Do you understand me?” He yelled. “All we need is a little Prince running around, getting married and taking the Kingdom of Whispershire back to his family!” Movada released his hold. “No doubt causing trouble all over the place for me. Trying to kill ME in the like a snake’s.

Shaddock nodded his head in agreement. “What about the girl?” He asked. He was thinking of taking Robbie for himself.

“We’ll deal with that issue later. Right now, I have a job for you.” Movada curbed his anger and became pleasant, all of a sudden. “It will require some traveling.” He smiled at his strongest, and most faithful henchman.

Shaddock stared ahead at first unblinkingly, as he thought of how to go about his new assignment. Slowly, he accepted it and went on his way.

“How do you feel, Robbie?” Clairance asked gazing into a face that was much like her own. She came into the room and put down the basket full of eggs. Clairance took a seat next to Robbie, on her bed.

Robbie sighed. “I’m fine.” She answered rubbing her eyes.

“What’s the matter dear?” Clairance asked. “And I’m not going to take I’m fine for an answer. Not when you are rubbing your eyes like that!” She looked at her daughter and shook her head. “Please tell me. Did something happen this morning? With Kyle?” She pushed Robbie’s hair back away from her face.

Robbie frowned at her mother. “No. Nothing like that.” Robbie thought for a moment. Should she tell her mother? “Well, sort of… I don’t know.” Robbie sighed.

Clairance moved closer to Robbie and held her hand. “Tell me everything.” She said looking at her.

“Well, we went horseback riding way up into the countryside. The birds were singing, the bees were buzzing and you could still smell the freshness of the mornings first dew…” She trailed off as if in a daydream. After a few moments Robbie turned and gazed into her mother’s eyes. “He asked me to marry him, Momma.”

“Then why are you depressed? Rob, you should be happy!” Clairance exclaimed.

“I don’t know mother. I mean, he is the sweetest guy in the world. I love him to death, but marriage?” Robbie took a deep breath and blew it out with a sigh. “Is that what marriage is based on?” her brows creased on her forehead.

“Honey, marriage is based on a whole lot less, sometimes.” Clairance advised. “Kasde and I were married because it was a match made by the King.” She looked at her daughter sympathetically. “Let me tell you it was quite the experience. We had never before, even laid eyes on each other, before the wedding.

“When I saw him, standing before the priest, with the King at his side, I was scared to death. I didn’t know what kind of man he was, what kind of husband he would be, what kind of father. I knew nothing.

“Your father was a great man. He was an amazing husband. I got lucky. I did grow to love him. It is a pity that you didn’t get to know him. I do not even know if he is still alive or not. Movada sent him away from me! From Us! He broke up our family. He threw the King and Queen into the dungeon with their son.

“Movada is a monster! He made the royals become personal salves.” Clairance felt the need to give her daughter some more history.

“Rosseco, the King, refused to work for Movada. He was whipped to death in front of his family. Zipurda cried for her husband, and did little else. She was tossed out, to beg in the streets. Movada told her that she was worthless. No one really knows what happened to their son.” Clairance added. Except for me. She thought.

“I think he was about two years older than you. Kyles age I think.” She hinted to her daughter to no avail.

“Ok, mom. What do you want?” Robbie was used to a history lesson followed with a chore of some sort. She figured that she may as well ask.

“Well, someone catches on quickly!” Clairance laughed and thought a moment about what she wanted from her daughter. “I want you to go into Camo Forest for three days. You will take nothing but a cloak, and a dagger. I want you to rely on your senses and the things that nature provides. Listen to your inner voice and all will be revealed in its due course.” She looked at her daughter lovingly.

“That is my only advise for you. Now, you will leave on the morrow. As long as you do not leave the forest for three days, you will be safe. You will find out everything that you need to know.” Clairance kissed Robbie on the forehead. “Take care my daughter. You need to get some rest.”

Robbie smiled at her mother then remembered something. “Mom?”

“Yes, sweet heart?”

“I told Kyle that I would give him an answer in three days.” A frown creased her brow. “Wouldn’t tomorrow be the second?”

Clairance patted Robbie’s hand. “Listen to me child. You must go into the forest before you talk to Kyle. You must engage the forest. You may not answer a question about marriage, without your father, unless you do this. Do you understand?” Clairance gazed in her daughter’s eyes. “This is very important.”