Precious Prinsess part 6

She rode through though the farmlands, the farmers looked up from their morning work as she rode by. She noticed that her pristine royal white horse would attract attention. She pulled over at a small stream and splashed the horse who she decided to call Libra with dirty water staining his white coat, and making him look warn and old. After getting the mysterious note she had noticed all the things she will really need for her trip. She decided to stay in the village for a day or two. She wanted to figure out what she was going to do, and one thing for sure is that she wanted to find the old woman that she saw the day Rapunzel disappeared. Libra trotted through town and it painfully reminded Salina of that day, with the street performers prancing around the fountain and street vendors crowded by villagers. Salina first decided to stop at a inn and get a room. She tied Libra up in front of the Three Beers a restaurant that she heard was also an inn, but as she flung open the door Salina found herself face to face with the old lady.

 

Precious Prinsess part 5

As the sun set Salina stopped in the barn of an old farm, the cows mooed as she dismounted. She sat on a bale of hay and sorted through her belongings. In her bag was her dagger, she drove that into her belt, the food that she stole, four outfits, and an extra pair of shoes. Salina slept through the night until around five am the horse steeped on her hair to wake her up. She looked up the horse was chewing on hay, unaware that he was standing on her. “Get off!” Salina yelled shooing him away. She got up and looked around. Her bag was thrown carelessly on the fence and it condense was strewn around it. She scrambled up to check the damage. “Burglars” she muttered to herself as she ran over. But as she inspected the content, she found nothing damaged or stolen, and as she looked around in bewilderment she noticed next to her old sack was a large hiking backpack. Salina ran over to it. She zipped it open and inspected the things inside. The bag was half full she pulled out, first another bag of food, a pair of old scissors, a jack knife, a water container, water purifier and a bright shiny sward. At the bottom of the bag was a note. Dear Salina, as I thought you had packed TERIBULY I have provided some other useful items that you will need. The note wasn’t signed. Confused she packed the backpack and was off leaving the old sack behind.

Another one of Harriet's "heart warming" short storys

                 Rustle in the bushes indicated that I wasn’t alone. I wiped my head around trying to find where it was coming from.  I kept running, hopefully to somewhere safer, but the maze just went on, and on. But as I ran I noticed the shrubs were getting thicker, taller and darker. Is this the way they want me to die? Mauled by a tiger or bear, or suffocated by a shrub in a dark, scary maze. I take a moment to catch my breath. Everything seemed quiet, my eyes drifted up. The walls towered thirty feet above me, no way to climb those. My hand brushed the soft ivy, but then gasped, it was poison oak. I drew to a corner made of solid brick a wept until my eyes went dry. It seemed like forever has past and my hand already had small welts on it. I attempted not to breathe too loudly but my gasps for air were raspy and cold. I looked up again, a light; it was coming closer, getting bigger my scream was drowned out by a loud buzzing and a sound like knifes against a chalkboard.

      The light blocked my vision, I dropped to my knees. I crawled blindly away smashing into brick and brushing poison ivy as I went. Finally I rounded a corner and the light went out. Darkness surrounded me again. My eyes adjusted back to the dark but everything was blurry. So was that their plan to blind me so that a beast can sneak up on me. I rubbed my eyes and kept going.  But suddenly I heard a soft growl behind me. I jumped up and ran, ran until I ran straight into a branch sticking out from the vines. My head began to spin I wandered hopelessly through the maze until I walked right into a brick wall. I stumbled back and then I heard the rocks shift. I ran my hands across the cracks between the stones and pushed. The rocks moved back and then the cracks began spraying water, the rocks tumbled to the ground and to my horror a large wave of water knocked me over and I fell under. The water was so strong that the wall next to me began to fall apart. As I flailed around in the water attempting to reach the surface pieces of stone flew themselves at me. A large sharp rock cut me deep in the side and a pipe that had been stacked on the top of the wall struck me hard in the head. Spots popped in front of my eyes. I threw my hand up in a last desperate grasp for life, and then I felt the air. My head brock the surface and I gasped for air, the waves around me threw my flailing body every witch way until I was able the grab on to a vine hanging down from the wreckage of a wall. I pulled myself through the water until I grabbed on to the top of the wrecked wall. I laid down on the top of the bricks and tried to regain my breath my eyes flickered and I fell into a deep sleep.