Chapter one THE KINGDOM CINTRA

" My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you"

-John Keats, bright star.

"First sight of love is like first breathe of life so unique yet so simple"

-Shama Parveen

Our story begins in a place unlike any you have ever seen. A place filled with magic and wishes, chaos and wonder. The beginning of an adventure often starts with a normal day. It was a warm summer day in the kingdom of cintra and bridgeguard being it's capital city was full of summer activities. Be it the summer market in the central square, the water festival near river bank or royal family gathering at the royal garden everyone participated in those. Rich or poor, young or old, lady or gents no one is excluded.

The capital was filled with joyous merriment and laughter and why wouldn't it be. The capital as well as the kingdom was celebrating the birthday of the third royal Prince who was coming to the capital for the first time after 20 years. Seeing that he was sent away from home in very mysterious circumstances as a baby, his return was a highly anticipated occasion. The return of the third royal Prince was going to be calibrated throughout bridgeguard and cintra.

Whispers and rumours are flying from one month to another, each one is more absurd than the last one. People were making things up as they please because they didn't had any information regarding this mysterious third Prince, not a single morsel of juicy information for them to go on. Like any other kingdom, in the kingdom of cintra all the princes, princesses and the members of the royal family were all the darlings of the cintra. Public face of the royal palace.

It was a rude or transition hard to say, but the people of Central follows royal palace gossips (news) as some would follow their religions. All the kings and queens, princess and princesses and royal family members were the celebrities of Cintra. And why wouldn't they be? From countless generation the royal line possess " "sanguine". A magical birthmark they born with, which gives them magical as well as mythical property. Each birthmark represent different attributes. But it wasn't the mark that was the determining factor of power but the individual person itself. It varies from person to person. For example in the same maternal line there could be a lightning mage or a light summoner. Mages were people who possess elemental magic. And summoner were generally considered average. But that's not specifically accurate, there are records of the past in witch people who were summoner Conjuring an entire Island in the middle of a city. So yes, there weren't any specific measurements of magical powers.

The return of the mysterious third Prince was enough to flood the capital with nervous excitement. People from all around the kingdom were preparing themselves for this special occasion. And bridgeguard being in the central location was bubbling with excitement. Fair maiden from all over bridgeguard we're going from signing with long heaving breathe to tittering to in their handkerchief, gossiping nonstop about the unmarried state of the prince, Creating romantic scenario of themselves and the dashing prince.

From small quint to large and prominent cloth shop were filled with customer, all trying to buy the latest fashion, the trendiest of clothes. Time like theses where the most beneficial for the store owner. Large or small establishment no matter what. And all the better if the store owner had any insight information on the current fashion trend of the role palace. Many shop owners, be it cloth shop, jewelry store, weapon and metal store, top notch hotel and restaurant or beauty store would try to obtain latest internal palace trend and fashion regarding food, cloths, weapon, jewelry, etc.... Such were the life people of bridgeguard.

Many were profiting from this occasion and among them was also a girl named Woodland. Like her name suggested her nature was like a creature of Woodland and she was unlike any other girl.

Apart from 'The special occasion' day of the kingdom. Today was also a important day to Woodland. And the beginning of her important day starts with the 'Deal'. Not any deal but 'the Deal' which had taken a great amount of time and effort from her part, and was also a beacon of life for her. She was a little late, thanks to her stepmother giving all the morning chores of the farm to her. It was a little inconvenient for when she had important things to attend to. Like a negotiation deal. Well, it does cost her some time to bribe her stepbrother into doing the those chores but she did it.

Woodland was running through the busiest street of the market square, wearing knee length brown summer dress and thigh high black worn leather boots.

"Move aside, move aside people" woodland was shouting and running as she shoves people not so gently from the way. She glanced at the shadow of the near by building to check the time and got a little nervous seeing that she was indeed little late. It was fast approaching late afternoon. And she should have reached there by now. Although she was nervous, she did not panicked because panicking was a waste of time as far as she was concern. She picked up her speed and starting running, shoving and elbowing people lest and right. "give way, move aside people it's an emergency" she shouted more loudly.

"Where are you going in such a hurry, woody" A voice came from the sweet shop near the bronze fountain. It was just loud enough for her to hear it. Woodland turned her head while running and gave a shouted reply Going to the church Mr. Goodwill. In a hurry, catch up to you later". She heard a good luck as ran past his sweet shop and Market square. After crossing the square she went in on the less crowded street. The atmosphere here was as same as the main Street but with less people. The street here was littered with small shops and stall filled with nick- knack and trinkets. Children and teenagers were running from one stall to the another, looking around excitedly and chatting with their friends. The people here were not as posh and dress stylish as the upper class but they were nonetheless participating in exuberance of the day. Her speed pickup some more and It took her almost twenty minutes at full speed, from crossing several street, some ally, a big hole in the wall, crossing few garden yard to jumping picked fences and taking dirt and gravel shortcut road to arrive at her destination.