By justclickindiva on Skatehive
Zorinda scoured the long hall on the castle's third floor. Detecting no guards, she tiptoed toward the door leading into her father's chambers. Being the last of his fifteen children, she was forbidden access until she reached majority. What she didn't see was the woman she feared she wouldn't. "You're not of age yet, girl. You know the rules. Why do you persist in behaving as though you don't?" Zorinda's charge, Altheria, whispered as she jerked her daughter's hand away from the door handle. Zorinda resisted, grabbing her mother's hands, then broke free and backed away. "But I must speak with father! I can't wait a whole year. I've been visited by another waking dream." "You mean a nightmare. That dreadful stuff isn't real you conjure up in your mind. I've told you that a hundred times. Now get away and study your lessons." Altheria shook her head. "But father will die if I don't speak with him I tell you! He'll die on the battlefield in two days time!" Zorinda's hands flew to her fac