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Chapter 5: Cleared - Section 2 |
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@____@ My eyes hurt. ;____; ~ Forest of Angels Chapter 5: Cleared Section 2
He opened his eyes what seemed like just a moment later, laying on something that certainly wasn’t a branch. Tsano swore in his mind. He’d lost track on how many times he’d fallen asleep and woken up someplace else. Tsano sat up rigidly, realizing at once his hands were fixed behind his back with magic, like an invisible rope was holding them together, the same thing with his feet, more magic tying his ankles. He looked around, wondering dully where he was this time, when he gasped. A lavishly decorated room extended all around him, very unlike where he last woke up, in a cell. There were long pale pink drapes around the opaque windows where Tsano could see it was still raining through the glass, still dark through all the rain thundering down loudly onto the windowpane. There was a bed to his right, behind him, with a bedside table with a pink pen with feathers at the top, a pink lamp, and a journal. This place looked like it was owned by a girl who simply had access to too much money. The carpet was plush-feeling with another royal looking red carpet extending from the door to a throne-like chair in front of where he sat on his knees, like it was expecting someone to come in. Was this a Royal bedroom? The door opened and Tsano’s heart raced. This person knew he was an Angel. No doubt about it. He was done for unless he did something about it. But what could he do? His mind was entirely blank as he stared at the slowly opening door... A girl peered around the open door, seeing him, and entering, closing the door behind her. She looked about the same age as Tao, but she was dressed much more expensively, with jewels in her unusually colored pale blue hair, on her sash around her waist, and jewelry bedecking her long fingers. She moved the chair out of the way, kneeling directly in front of him, her hands in her lap, staring at him with azure blue eyes. Tsano stared back, wondering if he should break the silence or if he should remain quiet. Which would be the better strategy in this situation? “So I meet the Angel Tao has been talking so much about at last.” She smiled pleasantly. “Allow me to introduce myself, since you might not have heard of me…” “How did you know I was the Angel?” He demanded of the girl, his gaze unflinching. It hurt to say, “the” Angel, like he was some escaped zoo animal. “And how do you know Tao? Were your thugs with that crowd in the forest back there?” She giggled a bit, then sighed. “I wonder if this was the right thing to do…” She bit her lip, turning to a bag on the floor and pulling out an ornate mirror decorated with silver roses around the frame. She put it in front of Tsano’s face, and he saw himself staring back at him, white faced, pale golden haired. “Amazing…” He breathed. “I didn’t even notice I was an Angel, I can’t feel my wings at all.” Tsano twisted to see his wings. Indeed, they were there. “But I can’t move them.” He muttered, looking back at her. “We put a number of spells on you when we first carried you in.” She bowed, still on her knees. “I’m terrible sorry, but I wanted a chance to speak with you, without interruption or fear of you getting away.” “I know about Tao because I’ve been her friend ever since her parents died.” The girl closed her eyes regretfully. “I was there when we first met you, don’t you remember?” Tsano thought back. There was a girl with unusually colored hair, he remembered that much. “And, no. My people did not degrade themselves enough to take part in your public capture or ridicule. You see--,” “Then why did you capture me anyway!?” She looked back up at him, her eyes calm and her expression unfazed. She smiled slightly, maybe self-consciously. “I just wanted a chance to speak with you. I mean you no harm, and neither do my subordinates, you may have seen a few of them at Olivand’s manor the day you escaped from it.” She took a moment, breathing in. “I wanted to clear all of this misunderstanding up. You’ve been on the run for more than 6 years now, there have been sightings of an Angel at least three times since then, so that means you’ve been chased out of anywhere you might have called a home for the shortest of periods.” Tsano sighed with difficulty, his breathing shaking with the slightest of anger. “I…” He began. He stared determinedly into the girl’s eyes. “The Angels did nothing wrong.” He told her. She pondered for a moment. “How can I believe what you say is true?” He blinked, keeping calm like the girl was. “I was considered a Prince there, my parents, the King and Queen, would have told me anything that had happened that had gone wrong.” Tsano thought before saying what he was going to say next. “And for all I know, none of us even left the Forest in our entire lives, besides my mother and father.” She smiled. “I still haven’t introduced myself.” She cleared her throat. “You said you were a Prince?” She giggled slightly again, holding out her hand. “I am Princess Uri, so that makes two of us.” “Tsano.” He explained. Tsano stared at her hand, then back up at her. “You know I can’t move, right?” He asked. Uri’s mouth opened slightly. She retracted her hand. “I’m sorry…” She said, looking away. “I can undo the bonds if you would like, if you would promise not to run away…” She mumbled. “I can’t guarantee that.” Princess Uri looked back up at him, smiling nervously again, but then she dropped her breeziness. “So you’re sure, that there’s nothing that the Angels could have done wrong?” Tsano nodded. “I swear it.” She smiled. “Then, since there is no proof that there is anything the Angels could have done…” She continued, “So by the power invested in me as Princess Uri of the grand continent of Eluryh, I declare the Angel Innocent!” “You have the power to do that?” Tsano asked, amazed. “Of course, I'm the Princess.”She smiled, and continued, “And I hereby place the mob responsible for burning down the forest, and all those who sought the Angel, Tsano, Guilty!”
[Meko-Chan] · Sat Oct 21, 2006 @ 04:15pm · 2 Comments |
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