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Chapter 8

Angela returned to her small dank room where Rose was

waiting, as always. She felt different since the day she first put on the snake-shaped ring on her finger. She couldn’t exactly explain it, she just knew it. She never wanted to take the ring off, she felt certain it gave her power and skill and she didn’t want any of that to go away, not even for a minute. She loved

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the way she felt.

“Hey, are you daydreaming?”, Rose interrupted her thoughts. “Nah, I don't know, maybe….”, Angela answered not sure what else to say. She was thinking of a lot of things at once and to her surprise, all her thoughts ended with Daniel's image and with the fact that she still couldn’t believe he was the Prince. “Where have you been, Angela? You look…different in a way. Are you ok?”

“Sure, I was in the forest again.”

“And did you catch anything? Or are we just going to starve tonight again…”, said Rose seeing that Angela seemed to have her bag empty. She knew that Angela used to hunt in the King's forests and that it was strictly forbidden, but Angela had never been caught so far so Rose didn’t worry too much. “I shot a deer, a perfect headshot.”

“Well, where is it?”, Rose asked as she didn't see anything and still hoping that maybe Angela had somehow managed to cut a piece of it and fry it in the woods as she couldn’t have taken the raw meat at the orphanage. That would have only meant trouble as Miss Eveline was no fool and would have realized what sort of meat it was and where from. So Angela always fried the meat in the woods close to an abandoned hunting cabin and brought it back here and shared it with her. “Well, the deer is where it belongs, in the forest. Just that it is dead.”

“What happened?”

“Believe it or not, I got caught red-handed. I had to leave it there. I'm sorry, Rose.”

“Who saw you, Ange? Will he turn you in to the King? Gosh,

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you know the penalty for stealing from the king…”

“I don't know if he'll turn me in…anyway, the Prince himself caught me hunting his father's game, so really, I don’t know…”

“The Prince!?? Are you serious!?? And you are here free instead of in one of the king's cells?”

“Ha-ha, maybe he likes me!” and Angela burst out laughing as she didn’t believe her own words. But Rose was dead serious. “What’s with the look on your face? Don't worry, I don't think he will arrest me or anything, let's just get some sleep at least if we can't get food…”

As Rose and Angela went to sleep, a black raven sat at their window, gazing inside from the darkness. Its eyes shone like two embers. Miles away, Margo could see everything her raven saw and she could instruct Igor on finding Angela and the magic ring.

THE LEGEND OF THE RING

Vol. II