Chapter 6: A Fairy Tale Room

She had entered a room full of dresses, shoes and jewellery. It was so much, and so beautiful. Erica never owned any dress, and only dress she had ever seen was her mother’s wedding gown. ‘I wonder who the lucky girl is.’ She thought to herself as she looked at everything. The room was so organized and clean and every dress was beautiful in its own way, with beautiful designing and beautiful, vibrant colors. The room was basically like a big closet and she was walking in this huge closet. The closet was far bigger than her own room back in her home. ‘Where am I?’ she again thought to herself. She was jolted back to reality when she felt a hot wax from the candle drip on her hand, she went in the room and placed the candle by the side table of the bed again and rubbed off the now dried wax off of her hand.

Her mind was soon diverted by the place she was in, she touched the bed in which she was lying before and it was the most comfy thing she has ever touched, the blanket that had been draped over her was soft as silk. She turned around and touched the pillow; it was so squishy, and soft. The room smelt like jasmines and roses, the room she was in was probably even bigger than her whole house, she looked at herself, and she realized that she was wearing a silky trouser with a silky matching shirt. She looked up at the ceiling, and it was so high and the windows on the top of the walls were so big and the whole room was lit because of the light coming from those windows. The room was in cream colour with golden border and light pink colour floral designs adorned the walls. The doors were brown colour and there was also a dressing table by the huge mirror, with lots of perfumes bottles and other girly things that she had never used in her entire life. There were large white coloured vases at the door, which were filled with rose and jasmine flowers. There was also a big mirror at the wall which was in front of the bed, to the left side of the mirror were number of shelves with many books, and a table and chair was placed in front of those shelves, to the right side of the bed were big windows with heavy drapes in front of them, Erica had already tried moving them but she couldn’t. To the left side of the room was a door that leads to the huge closet.

She sighed and decided to go back to the bed, she looked for her bag and found it by the side table of the bed, and she opened and retrieved her water skin and her diary. But her bow and arrows were nowhere to be found. ‘Of course that idiot bastard took my weapons as well,’ she thought to herself and drank some water from her water skin. All the crying and wailing had made her throat dry, after satisfying her thirst, she went back into the bed. She didn’t know what to do, she could not get the door to open, there was no access to the window either, and she was tired and hungry from all the crying and sobbing. She lay back in the bed and soon sleep took over her again.

Her eyes opened to the hushed talking of someone, she quickly opened her eyes and sat up instantly. There were two women standing there looking nervous and confused just like Erica. “Good afternoon Miss,” One of them said mustering up some courage, and they both bowed at her. Erica was shocked at them, “I need to get out of here,” She said to them bluntly and they looked at each other like she has gone crazy. Erica got out of her bed and walked to them, “I said I want to get out of here, show me a way out now,” She said to them showing some made up anger.

“I am sorry miss, we are only here to escort you to dinner,” one of them said, “Sire ordered us only to escort you to dinner only.” The other woman emphasized on each word. “Sire, who sire?” Erica said in anger, “Who the hell is he keeping me here? What right does he have? Ask your sire to come see me this instant, I am not having any dinner at all until I meet him,” Erica said and went back in the bed. They looked at each other and hung their heads low and went out of the room closing the door behind them.

“What the hell, they didn’t even insist, I was so hungry.” Erica mumbled to herself and sat there waiting for them to come again. She pulled out her diary and opened it; she then pulled out her lead pencil and started scribbling in the diary to pass her time hoping to receive an answer soon.

‘Hey Prospiko, I have been kidnapped, I think. I was riding the black stag and it took me somewhere that I don’t know about. I haven’t seen my kidnapper yet, only heard his voice. But I am sure he is an idiot and a bastard. I don’t know why he is keeping me here. Just few moments ago, two ladies came in the room and asked me to go for dinner, I denied their request and told them to go tell their master that I will not be having any dinner until their master or sire came to meet me, I am sure they will be coming back any instant,’ And that is when realization hit her, they will be coming back. ‘Maybe I can hit the kidnapper when he will come in the room now,’

She scribbled and then closed the diary and waited for her kidnapper to come back quickly. She quickly jumped out her of bed and picked up the vase from the reading table, she emptied it and went behind the door and waited for the person to come in.