From Golden Skies: The Cat, The Prince by Cassandra Cielo

Author:Cassandra Cielo [Cielo, Cassandra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cassandra Cielo
Published: 2023-04-25T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

A Call To Hope

I sat up, my vision spotting from the fast movement.

Prince Shroding. Was he somehow the son of King Roark and Queen Elina? The child speculated about in my history book?

I had never heard of a prophecy, though, and my history book only seemed concerned with the idea that a child might have been born. Nothing about what the child might do besides be the rightful king.

It was ludicrous, and yet Shroding had said he was trapped in a pocket dimension for centuries. The child of King Roark would have had to be born before the queen died some four hundred years ago. If Shroding was that child, then him being stuck in another dimension would explain why he had been gone for so long, absent from all thought and memory. It would explain why he had not taken the throne back when the war began anew. But if it were true, then that would make him four hundred years old. No one but those left from the king's court lived that long anymore, not since the king passed, but maybe I was wrong. Clearly history was wrong on a few counts.

I squeezed my eyes shut, breathing hard.

What did it all mean? Why was he coming to me?

It was impossible.

The bright afternoon sun streaked beams of gold across the floor. I planted my bare feet on the small rug next to my bed. I felt the woven texture between my toes and sighed.

This was real. This was my reality. This farm, Micah, the kids. Even though I did believe Shroding was somehow a real person, and perhaps he really was trapped and in need of assistance, there was no way I could possibly save him. I was just a farm girl from Wycliff.

Iri stirred on the end of the bed, his large fluffy head lifting to look at me. Somehow in the night, the purple blanket Theo had left me had wrapped around Iri, bundling him up till only his head remained visible.

I smirked.

“How did you get into such a precarious position?” I mused, crawling over to free him from the blanket bonds.

His soothing purr met my ears, and even though my body was leaden, the act of unburdening him gave me a sense of control I didn’t know I needed.

“At least I’m freeing someone today.” I sighed, deciding to put all thoughts of Shroding aside.

Shaking off the last dregs of sleep, I hurried through my morning routine and set to work. Work was a good distraction, for the most part. Though the night’s events sat idling in my mind all day, I didn’t let myself dwell on all that had transpired. It was weird enough that nearly every detail from the moments with Shroding stood alight in my memory as if they had happened only seconds ago instead of hours; I didn’t need to add to it by ruminating on them. Yet the only time my mind seemed truly clear was when I thought of the supposed prince.

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