A New Plan - Chapter Thirty

The mother was very depressed and seemed to lose hope that she and her girls would survive another day. After losing one of her daughters, she feared that it would only be a matter of time before her other two girls would be taken by this wizard's schemes to please the queen.

After some time passed, the husband returned to find his family missing. When he came to court to ask for help, the queen realized that the family he was searching for was in her dungeon. So to keep things quiet and not be so cruel, they put the man in the dungeon to be reunited with his family. The queen hated what had happened to one of the kids, so she wanted to do something that would ease the family's stress. 

Before he was united back with his family, the wizard gave him some water to drink....or so he thought. He began to feel a warm sensation spread all over his body.

He was then struck with horrible pain all over his body. He had never felt this much pain in his entire life. A cloud of red smoke surrounded him and began to fill the cell.

A few minutes passed, which felt like an eternity, the smoke disappeared, and the man felt different. The pain had stopped, and he looked down to see his hands did not look the same. His skin looked pale and had a bit of a glow to it. Before he can try to figure out what had just happened to him, the cell door swings open.

There was her true love. Her sweet husband and the father of her children. She rushed to him only to realize they had gotten to him first. He was given the potion that had changed her earlier. 

"I have been looking everywhere for you and the girls! What have they been doing to you, and what did they do to me?" he asks her."I do not know for sure what they are doing. This wizard had been experimenting with us," she replies.

After a moment, he pulled away from his wife and looked around. "Where's our other daughter?" he asks. "I told you they were experimenting with us. I feel it has something to do with the queen's condition. They have a new wizard trying to find a cure, and we are the ones they have chosen to try these potions on. She was the first of our girls to take the potion. It worked on me, but when she took it," she paused and took a deep breath. "She... died from it. It was a very quick death," she tells him in a small whisper. She pulled him close and let him hide his tears from his other daughters. In a soft whisper, "I will get revenge. They will suffer for what they have done."

The queen summoned the guards to bring the lady from the dungeon.

 "I want you to do this for me, and I will have mercy on your girls. I will let them out of the dungeon and set up rooms for them in the castle until you have completed what I ask of you." the queen explains.

"You and your husband are to go and stay in one of the country houses I have prepared for you. There you will get pregnant and stay until you deliver the baby. If you fail to do this, I will have no mercy for you or your family. I will let the wizard test the potion out on and will let the wizard continue his experiments on you and your daughters. So will you do this?" she asks her. "I will do anything for my family. If you keep my girls safe, I will give you anything," she replies without hesitation.

She was then taken, along with her husband, from the castle, and her girls stayed at the castle just like the queen had promised. There was one lady there to take care of her needs. "I'm Beth, and I will be with you through the whole process. I will report your progress to the queen regularly. So what are your names so I will know what to call you?" Beth asks them."My name is Kara, and this is my husband, Mark," she replies. 

She then left them alone. Kara and Mark sat on the bed and talked for a long time. "I can't believe they are making us do this. We will give them this monster, and hopefully, they will let us leave with our girls. We just need to make sure we don't get attached to it." he tells her. "I don't want another child, but only to keep my girls safe. I will do whatever I need to do," she tells Mark.

Once the decision was made, it didn't take them long to get started. They were happy to be together again but had to make sure they succeeded in what the queen wanted for the sake of their girls.

She missed her girls desperately but enjoyed being with her husband again. It was a beautiful house, and she was allowed to go outside for a bit after the sun went down. Beth did regular exams to look for any signs of pregnancy. Weeks had passed, and there was still no sign of pregnancy. Everyone was on edge, knowing the queen was not patient. 

Another week passed, and Kara became sick to her stomach. Even though this was a good sign that she was with child, it was scary and sad at the same time.

Not long after, she began to throw up all the time. She had a hard time keeping anything down.

After a little while, she began to feel much better, and she was sure that the days were counting down to being united with their children again.

Beth noticed Kara was getting sick every morning and was sure she was pregnant, but it was still too soon to tell. She would wait to make sure before she told the queen.

Kara woke to an awful pain. She was cramping and very sick. Mark feared that Kara was losing the baby. Beth ordered Kara to stay in bed until they knew that she was either losing a baby or that she suffered from some other ailment and was not due to the pregnancy.

Meanwhile, in the castle dungeon, the girls had heard that their parents were sent away for a bit and that they were to stay in the castle. James managed to sneak down and tell the girls that they were to have their own rooms and that they would be able to play together all the time. This gave them hope, but they missed their parents.