Chapter 24: "We have to go to the capital."

Ariel could feel his heart taking him back down memory lane as he listened to the words the lady in front of him spoke.

She was reading his letter to him. A letter he had read countless times himself now and in which he only saw one thing.

His father's hate for him.

He had been a very bad child.

A really bad one who had even wished his own father death once. He had been rebellious, wild, unwilling to listen to anyone and without fear or favor of anything.

He had been renowned for his looks once, but after the curse, that beauty turned to shame and he couldn't look anyone in the eyes again.

He had read this letter a million times now, but never had he heard the words like this and never had he seen those words in this light.

Roxanne was changing his father's words. That was what she was doing, but at the same time she was keeping it as it really was.

He could hear his father's displeasure in the way she spoke. He could hear the anger and the disappointment his father had expre