Fairy Dust, Pt 3

Adelina turned to Aileen, and mouthed, “Now what?” Aileen grabbed her hand, and started to walk along the wall. Adelina silently congratulated Aileen’s brilliance. Here they were walking inside Lady Amber’s walls! They continued through, till they came to the wall facing outside the house. Aileen rubbed her hands together, producing a small pile of dust in her transparent hands. She tossed onto the wall in front of her, and they both leapt through. Instantly, they had to spread out their wings, for they had come right outside of the tree, and were 20 feet off the ground! They landed on a small branch, and Aileen turned to Adelina.
“Adelina, can you believe it? Lady Amber is plotting treason!”
“And not only her, but those two men and 400 other fairies!”
“To think, we are servants to a traitor!” Exclaimed Aileen.
“Shh!” Cautioned Adelina. “Someone might hear you!” She looked around nervously.
“Well, are we just going to sit here and do nothing, or are we gonna’ warn the king and queen?” Asked Aileen. The both hopped up, and flew as fast as their wings could carry them to the palace at the center of the tree.
“What do you mean, we can’t see the King?!!?” Demanded Aileen. The two girls where at the palace, and trying to gain admittance to the throne room.
“I am sorry girls, but their Majesties are very busy as of now, and do not wish to be bothered with small measly matters.” Sighed the guard that was barring their entrance.
“But sir, you don’t understand! We bring matters of the utmost urgency!” Cried Adelina.
“As I said, it would be impossible to allow either of you into the palace.”
“Listen up, buddy! We just overheard a conversation about three fairies trying to take over the kingdom and possibly kill the royal children, and you don’t think the King and Queen should know about it?!?!?” bellowed Aileen. This caught the guard’s interest right away. He quickly lowered his voice.
“Treason you say, well then, you had better come with me.” He opened the gate and motioned the two girls to follow him. They did so quickly, and he led them into the palace and through several corridors.
“Sir, where are you taking us?” Inquired Adelina after several moments. They seemed to be going down into the cellars or something, and she was pretty sure that the throne room was quite a ways back.
“The King was on an inspection of the castle stairs when you came, and he should still be down here.” Replied the guard without looking at her. Adelina frowned, and looked at Aileen. She had slowed her pace, and was looking disbelievingly at her surroundings.
“Are you SURE the King is down here?” She asked.
“Quite sure, now if you ladies would just walk through this door here, I think you will find what you are looking for.” He opened up a thick wooden door, and motioned inside.
“It’s very dark in there, I don’t think that the King will be-” Adelina began to say, but she didn’t finish for the guard shoved both them inside and quickly slammed the door shut.
“Sir, what are you doing?!?” Shouted Aileen.
“Keeping you two out of the way.” Said the guard as he locked the door.
“But what about the plot to overthrow the kingdom, we need to warn the king!”
“Exactly.” Replied the guard, and they heard him walking down the corridor, whistling. Aileen grabbed the door handle and twisted it as hard as she could, but it wouldn’t budge. She turned to Adelina.
“Why on earth doesn’t he want to warn the king?” She gasped franticly. Adelina thought for a minute.
“Aileen, I think that guard might not want to warn the king…because he is going to help with the attack.”
“You mean,” whispered Aileen, “he is a traitor too?”
“That’s the only logical explanation I can think of for him locking us up. C’mon, let’s try and find a way out of here.” They both turned around, but were unable to see anything. The only light came from a small barred window on the door, leaving them in almost complete darkness. Luckily, Adelina was able to solve the problem by taking a handful of fairy dust and holding it in the weak light while concentrating very hard. The dust lit up and formed a glowing orb. The orb floated out of her hand into the air, revealing the rest of the room. It was small, dirty and damp. There was a rotting bench on the far side with a ragged blanket and a cracked pitcher next to it. Adelina gasped in horror, but Aileen just smiled. She held Adelina’s hand, and faced the door with her eyes closed. “Of course!” Adelina smiled, they were going to jump through the door, just like back at Lady Amber’s house. Her smile soon faded however, for when Aileen threw the fairy dust on the door, nothing happened. The wall didn’t shimmer, and when Aileen hesitantly pressed on the door, her hand hit hard solid oak.

What will happen to Adelina and Aileen this time?

Will they escape the room?

Will they catch the traitor?

Tune in next time to find out!