The Duke looked at the Queen with sadness, none of us like what the prophesy said, none of us are keen to send a teenager barely out of childhood into the bowls of hell. But the history books tell us the horrors that await us if we refuse train the long awaited child. It is only they that can save us. He knew that Queen Abeline was trying to protect the children of the nation, but she going to get them all killed. With a grim look on his face He figured he was going to have to put his neck on the line and disagree with the Queen in front of the courtiers, and he only hoped she would listen.......

"My Queen, may i interject here," the duke asked tentatively. "What do you have to say Duke carmichael." Said the Queen. The Duke started speaking the words the Queen would not want to hear " Your benevolence shows no bounds, but you have seen the prohecy as have i, we have no choice but to send the child away; to train her to fulfil her role in the catasophy to come." With a grave look on his face the Duke gauging the Queens reaction continued "nobody else on the whole continent has the inherent potential Princess Jeanie does, and remember, she will not be alone there will be others who join her, to help her. We need her." He finished. The Queen stoo up from her throne, looming over all below her, her face looked thunderous "SILENCE." She demanded with deadly calm, the Duke felt like he had walked face first into the eye of a hurricane. "HOW DARE YOU." Said the Queen. She started walking towards the Duke with almost a murderous intent, while continuing her speech. "My oldest son Jerome was killed 10 years ago on a fools errand becuase of this prophecy, because we all were so high and mighty on ourselves that we we thought we were right, disregarding the Red Flags." The Duke paled the closer the Queen walked towards him, when she was a mere foot from him he knelt on one knee and she continued. "And you now expext me to send my twelve year old daughter off to train for a purpse none of us have any way of verifying is real or not." With a disgusted look on her face Queen Abeline turned and walked away. "No, im not allowing it, im not sending my youngest child on another fools errand." The Duke quickly stood up as the Queen walked away from him, a brief feeling of relief running through him realising he came away unscathed from the Queen's fury, before realising the meaning of her words. "But your Majesty, you know as well as i that events are happening as the prophecy foretold, crops dying, previously sane people all over the continent losing their mind at the exact same time, and all saying the same the same thing"

To be continued.........