"We heard nothing about the mythical creatures." Hildegard said.
It was true.
It made no sense that when Scarlet had gone missing the emerald remained intact.
That was one of the reasons why Rose had even kept hoping that her little girl was still alive.
And then she had found a piece of the emerald ashore and it further made no sense.
That the emerald had broken off from its holder and the monsters had still been held captive.
Rose laughed. "Maybe there was really nothing to it. Maybe it was just an old wife’s tale. After all the story of the monsters are thousands of years old. It was probably just one of the many old lies our ancestors told."
Rose was doing her best to wave it off away.
"But this was something you had believed in." Hildegard said in surprise. "It was something you believed in. What could have happened?"
"I was wasting my time." Rose said harshly.
Hildegard took a step back.
Rose sighed heavily and then she looked up at her friend. "I did not mean to snap at you. I am ready to bury scarlet. I have been holding on to her for so long it is high time I let her go."
Hildegard was proud of how she was letting go finally.
But the story of the Kraken was very suspicious.
They had not heard of any mythical monsters in a long time.
"But you were interested at first were you not?" Hildegard asked her gently. "That was what Bernice said."
"Bernice should really mind her business." Rose said touching her forehead.
"She is a member of court who happened to be there when you both had the altercation and she meant no harm. You did have a point if you belived that the Kraken was real." Hildegard said.
But Rose shook her head
"I was just obsessed back then about it. I should not have been." She said. "I am making things different."
She stood up and the servants brought her a large coat and helped her wear it over her beautiful dress.
"I want to request that a headstone be placed for Scarlet." Rose said her head held up high.
"There is already one." Hildegard said surprisingly her.
"What?" Rose said in shock.
"Roland erected one for her when he called off the search and declared her missing." She informed her.
Rose stood breathing heavily.
She even had no idea about any of this.
"How come I never knew?!" Rose asked heart broken that such a thing was kept from her.
"Because you refused to hear about it." Hildegard said.
Rose swallowed and felt shame and embarrassment overwhelm her.
She swallowed hard and turned to Hildegard. "Will you come with me to the gravestone?"
"Of course." Hildegard said.
And later her and Hildegard were walking to the royal cemetery.
Rose did not need to go far.
She saw a small and lovely gravestone beside her elder brother’s gravestone.
Her parents and younger brother had died in a ship wreck when she was only a child.
She sighed heavily when she saw the beautiful gravestone.
She let the maids give her the bundles of flowers and one after the other she placed them on her father, then mother and younger brother’s gravestone.
And when it came to Scarlet’s, she stopped and simply looked at it.
On it was scribbled Scarlet the third, would have been Queen and ruler wizard Wolf world, gone too soon.
Rose felt her heart begin to bleed as she looked down at her baby’s gravestone.
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