Loque Bella's world went black and quiet. But in that blackness she began to hear something in the distance; a sound that got closer and louder. It was the sound of the wind blowing through the trees.
Suddenly opening her eyes, light came to them. Her vision was blurry for a few seconds but then it started to clear up.
She was lying on her back with her eyes on the celing. She was in a house by the looks of it a small house, sleeping on a small mattress on the floor.
Loque Bella sat up. She looked through the window at the wind blowing through the trees and then around the room. There was a double bed to her left, a closet in the corner where clothes were hung and neatly folded and a staircase leading downstairs.
She looked at herself. Her hands first and then down at her chest, placing her hand right where King Remine's sword pierced through her flesh even and just sat there to herself for a good while with a wondered look on her face.
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It was an hour later and Loque Bella was upstairs in the bedroom sitting on her mattress crying to herself. Thinking more to herself about how and why she ended up where she was and completely broken by the fact that she might never see Prince Callum ever again. Just then Marius walked up the stairs with a small tray in his hand; on it was a plate of buttered bread and a cup of tea and placing it on the floor next to her mattress, he then sat down on the bed as a good amount of silence swept. "Are you alright?" he asked. "Of course I'm not alright. I'm wherever the heck I am and I can't go back. You are not who I know you to be and if I meet Prince Callum or any of the others they'll probably not be who I know them to be either so it's over. My life is over. I can't go back and I'll probably be stuck here and miserable for the rest of my life. I don't even know if I have a family here. Family? My father and my sisters, gosh, for the first time in my life I fe
Night time came and at the dining table, Loque Bella and Marius sat eating dinner; lamb soup and freshly baked bread with a glass of water on the side.Marius was eating but Loque Bella was just sitting there playing with her food; with her eyes puffy from having cried the whole day."You should eat," Marius said."I'm not hungry," Loque Bella responded."You need to eat so that you can gain your strength.""Strength for what? Strength to do what? With me so completely far away from home it's as good as being dead. I should have just stayed dead.""No. You don't mean that," he said."Yes I do. I'd rather be dead than be here wherever here is.""That's not a very nice thing to say.""No it's not but I don't want to be here. I'm sure Quentin is a lovely place but it is not my home and I want to go home. And if I can't go home and here is where my life is now then I don't want it and I would rather be dead than stay here aw
The following day came and Marius took Loque Bella to go and see Ludrin. He lived in a cottage; just like the one he and his family lived in but smaller and it was located a good distance from the village by the banks of a small river.They arrived riding on a horse and got down to meet Ludrin who was sitting under a tree smoking a pipe.Quentin was a kingdom that resembled Hampshen but was smaller and far less advanced; their houses were made of wood and the people wore very simple and dull coloured clothes."Ludrin?" Marius said and Ludrin turned to them. "Good morning.""Uh Marius, a good morning to you too," Ludrin said and stood up to meet them. He was a seventy something year old man with a bushy white beard."How are you?""I am very well thank you. And yourselves?""We're good thank you," Marius responded."And who do we have here?""This is a friend. Her name is Loque Bella.""Lovely to meet you my dear,"
Night time fell and Loque Bella and Marius sat at the dining table having dinner; mushroom soup."I think that went very well," Marius said."Did it?" Loque Bella went."Yes, I told you he was going to help you.""Did he really?""He gave you Gorra's name.""Yes this Gorra woman who may or may not help me," she said."She will help you. All you have to do is convince her and she will.""And what if I don't? What if I can't do the one thing that is going to determine whether I get back to my time or not?""You will," he said."You don't know that.""You don't know she won't help you either; we just have to get to Miings and do the best we can because like Ludrin said it's either that or nothing. If you don't manage to convince her then it is done.""Wow no pressure. Goodness this is all too much. It's too much. What is going on? Why am I here? How am I here?" Loque Bella asked."Loque Bella, ha
Morning came and Loque Bella and Marius were back on the road; continuing with their journey to Miings and only a few hours into the morning they finally arrived.A small village with huts scattered about here and there and with one in the far distance in the forest where Gorra's hut was.They rode through the village and Marius pulled the cart up in front of her hut. It was quiet and had creeping plants growing on the walls and roof and overgrown grass all around."Is this it?" Loque Bella asked."The man said to keep coming down this way until we saw a hut and there it is," Marius said."But look at it, it looks like no one lives here.""It does look quite deserted. But we asked him if she was around and he said she doesn't move much so she must be inside.""Alright and is it safe for us to just walked up to the door and knock?" she asked."He didn't say anything about her being dangerous so we should be fine.""Should
Night fell and outside the hut they had rented for the night, Loque Bella and Marius sat on the ground around a fire; both with blankets over them and taking in the quiet of the night, with distance looks on both their faces."How are you doing over there?" Marius asked."I certainly could be better," Loque Bella responded. "I knew what she was going to tell me I had to do was going to be hard but I didn't think it was going to be this hard. Journeying through a hot desert against the blazing sun to reach an oasis that no living soul has ever been to sounds like one of the hardest things I'll probably ever have to do.""It is. The desert is so hot and vast that people who have attempted to cross it and come out the other end . . . Have never been seen again. Goodness I didn't even think there was anything alive in there, an oasis for that matter, if I hadn't heard everything else it would have easily been the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. An oasis in
The sun rose bringing forth a new day and Loque Bella and Marius were off. They had bags on their backs filled with the things they needed, their skin painted with thick white paint, their faces too, fur cloaks over their clothes to shield them from the sun, fur boots to protect them from the hot sand and their weapons on their belts; a sword and knives.The sun blazed on and on they walked on the hard bare desert ground; making sure to build their tent and rest every three hours to quench their thirst, rest their feet and paint on a fresh coat of white paint."Goodness no wonder the people who venture into here are never seen again, the sun is brutal," Loque Bella said; with the both of them breathing in and out heavily trying to catch their breaths."Yes. Either the sun got them or other things did," Marius said."Right.""Scared?""Of course I'm scared. There are creatures out here that are going to attack us and we have no idea what they
The following day came and Loque Bella and Marius carried on. From walking across the hard ground of the desert they found themselves entering the loose sand portion of it with dunes of different shapes and sizes scattered across the area, as far as the eye could see."Goodness and now the real hard part comes," Marius said."We have to get across all that?" Loque Bella asked."Yes we do. And there's no sign of trees anywhere so I'm guessing we have double this ground to cover.""Great.""Come on let's go. Let's see if we can cover a good amount of ground before the overhead sun comes upon us and makes our day.""Alright," she said and they began making their way across the loose sands of the desert; continuing with their journey through the bare hotness to the Harborage of Embellishment where Loque Bella's last chance to return to her lover and family lied.Hours later the sun was directly overhead and was at its meanest; as below it