Rogue Princess
How could I be so naïve?
GRACE
The night is eerily quiet. The only sounds in the cabin is the creek of my rocking chair against the hard wood floor and my knitting needles clicking together. Silently I count the stitches that I have made so far. The tenth stitch is black. There must be some sort of mistake. This time I count the stitches aloud. “One blue, two blue… eight gray, nine gray, ten black,” there was no mistaking what I knitted. “Black stitch on the tenth, the most powerful Queen will be born,” I mumble to myself as I look at the massive blanket laid out before me. Never once had the black thread landed on the tenth stitch of a row before.