stuck between both worlds

chapter 2: the whispering walls

Eleanor….. The voice whispered

Mum?

I thought maybe my step mothers action was already getting to me ,I thought I was hallucinating due to not eating for two days. How could I have heard my dead mothers voice?

My room suddenly felt cold, and I could smell lavender the exact smell my mother had, I was scared .

“Do not be afraid my child” The voice said , but this time I could hear where it came from , it came from the wall where I had just hidden the broken frame.

I rushed to the wall, brought out the stone and looked at the frame, and it spoke to me again.

“I see everything happening to you, my child but I need to tell you something.

I felt a wave of anger rush through my body .

I screamed out, “How can you say you can see everything happening to me and you're not doing anything? You allow this witch wear your crown and parade herself around this palace like a real Queen while I break my back in the kitchen like a mere maid“

She replied, remaining calm and ignoring what I said , "I have something to tell you “.

My resolve softened a little “ What is it mum” I said.

She replied “the seal has been broken because your blood touched the glass of my last living frame in this palace”

At the moment I felt a throbbing pain in my foot but I ignored it.

She continued “That woman your father married thinks she can erase every single thing about me in this palace but she lies, as long as you are alive a part of me will always be here”.

She said “But you have to be fast and escape this palace my star , she seeks your to erase me fully and till she sees your head on a platter she will not stop “

“I instantly felt cold in my blood, I knew she hated me but i never her intention was to kill me“ I said

“what do I do mum? “ panic setting into me

“ I have no where to run to, even if I could run I have no strength to run, I have not eaten in days , only scraps and I can't speak to father, I don't know if she cast a spell on him but he doesn't look at me anymore” I said.

“Mother how do I leave here”

“My star I cannot take you out of here but I can give you a means to get out of here “ She said.

“On the very edge of our kingdom where flowers stop to bloom and it is almost engulfed in total darkness, you will find a way out” She said and immediately the voice stopped.

“NO” I cried.

“I don't understand what you mean mum, I don't know anywhere outside this palace” I said but her voice was gone I was on my own now.

I sat in the darkness of my room , it felt like eternity.

I needed to understand what my mother was talking about.

“I thought to myself where could I find knowledge about forbidden grounds,then the memory hit me the, old library the place where all my mothers old books and discoveries were kept, step mother ordered it to be locked away”

But my hope immediately dampened.

I thought to myself where would I find the key to that library , the only person who would have the key is step mother herself.

I needed to steal that key , it was a dangerous thought but I needed it if I was to understand what my mothers spirit said.

It was late at night… .

I crept out of my room trying to make sure my feet didn't make noise on the marble floor as I made way towards step mothers chambers.

Then I saw guards standing in front of her room.

I quickly hid behind a huge flower vase “if these guards find me here I'm as good as dead “i said.

how was I supposed to get past them I thought to myself.

I looked around me to see if I could find any distraction that would take them away from the door and I found one.

In my hiding place there was a small gold Cup and I knew if I threw it towards the other side of the chambers it would echo and the guards would get alarmed and check.

I did exactly that and as I planned they drew their swords and quickly left the door to check where the sound came from and I immediately ran into the chambers.

I was finally inside.

but I thought to myself “I'm looking for a key I don't know where to check” but I snapped out of it .

I had no time to second guess myself.

So I entered step mothers room as quietly as I could and she lay on her bed sleeping.

I began checking the wooden shelves and the writing desks inside her room.

“It had to be here somewhere I whispered”

I started to get agitated , where could this key be? That was when my eye fell upon the Queen's neck, she was wearing a key on her neck.

I looked at it and gasped that it was the key.

I walked towards her bed and was towering over her, I tried to quietly remove the key from her neck.

As I tried to remove it she suddenly woke up and grabbed my hand.