Prayer request please...Something really bad happened two days ago like 40 mintues from where I live and it's kinda scary...This also means my church can't hold the holloween event that was gonna happen tomorow so....I would say more but i don't wanna give away were i live so....
Anyways on a more happy note, this is a fun chapter so yay!
Chapter 55 Rebuilding
“Okay, we need those over there, these over here and.. what's that doing there?” Esben asked, as he looked at the blueprints that he found in one of the old trunks that was dug up from the ground of Castle Rysen. Everyone, including children from the village, were helping the Wingfeathers. Every single person from Biolumia, the Emerald Kingdom and Ember Island also pitched in.
Leeli and Sara took a break from working on the castle to work on invitations. They didn't have much to work with but they had some sheets of paper and a pen. So they designed beautiful invitations even though they only had a single pen. They drew Castle Rysen on it and added a list of details. They determined the title to be: “Come Join Us for the Celebration of Anniera’s Restoration!” and they announced that it was to be held this Saturday at 5:00 p.m. They signed their names at the bottom and got Janner and Kalmar to do the same.
“Wow, those look great!”, Rose said, as she walked by, carrying a bundle of nails and stopping to look at the two of them.
“Thanks Rose!” Leeli said.
“I could do a lot better if we had more than one pen and more than one color, but I think it's really nice,” Sara said.
"You know, one of my friend's parents runs a postal service. We can have those mailed out today, actually.” Rose said.
“Really!” Leeli asked?
“Yeah, just let me put these down and I'll talk to my friend. You should talk to your parents and then we can have those mailed out as soon as well, maybe in an hour or so.”
“Thanks Rose!” Leeli exclaimed excitedly.
“You're welcome now, let me go find Zoe.” Rose said as she walked off, put the bundle of nails down next to Mayor Blagus and ran off to find her friend, whose name apparently was Zoe.
It was now Friday afternoon. The Ballroom was almost complete, the only thing left to do was decorate. That was not the case for the rest of the stuff as they still had to bake food, get fitted for new outfits, find music, decorate, and clean up the village.
“Ugh! Why do we have to get new outfits?” Kalmar whined, for one of the things that he hated most, was to get fit for new outfits.
“Kalmar, you're the King of Anniera. You need a fancy outfit for Anneria’s first ball since it was attacked by Gnag.” Nia said, she gave him a look that he knew meant to be on his best behavior.
Nia took Janner, Kalmar, Leeli and Sara all to the village to see Arundelle.
Arundelle owned a little seamstress shop in the village. It was a cute and quaint little shop on the outside and on the inside. The adorable wooden sign on the outside read Buttons and Bobbins, which Leeli thought was the cutest name ever for a seamstress shop.
They entered to see that right as you walked in, there was a dark brown desk with a swivel chair. There were many different outfits on displays in the window sills and tons of mannequins wearing different outfits. Some of the outfits were only half complete. There were mirrors and drawers and cupboards. In the corner of the room was a long table with a sewing machine and above it were cabins full of spools of thread and fabric. Arundelle was standing at the table with the sewing machine on it.
The moment Arundelle heard the little bell on the door ring she almost dropped her needle. “My, my you scared me!” she said, putting the needle down in a little tin case and closing the case.”
“Sorry, we didn't mean to scare you, but I was wondering if you could get these children fit for new royal outfits for the Ball?” Nia asked.
“Of course!” Arundelle said, as her eyes lit up.
Kalmar groaned as he saw how excited she was and how many things she was pulling out of the cupboard.
“Hope you didn't have anything scheduled for today," Janner said, teasingly, eyeing the horrified look on his brother's face.
“Not-funny,” he said, sighing.
The boys were in one part of the room getting fit by the tailor named Toby and the girls were on the other side getting fit by Arundelle.
“So what color dress?” Arundelle asked Sara, once she finally got all the measurements.
“Well, what colors are there?”
At this, Arundelle's face lit up as she pulled a door on a large cabinet revealing about 100 different colors of fabric. “Anything you can imagine!” she responded.
“Whoa! that's a lot of fabric!” Leeli exclaimed, as she peeked over to the cabinet. “How are you ever going to choose?” she asked Sara.
They looked at all the beautiful colors of fabric. They were all arranged by color going from darkest to lightest.
“Well I like green but that light pink color right there is so pretty. It reminds me of lilly booms.” she said, pointing to a fabric color that was like a babyish pink color.
“Nice choice, I've always loved this color," Arundelle said, lifting the fabric that Sara had selected out of the cabinet. “This will look wonderful on you," she said kindly.
“And for you princess?” she asked Leeli, Leeli only took two seconds to pick out the one that she wanted. She chose a navy blue velvet fabric that just spoke to her.
“Also a very nice choice," Arundelle said, agreeing with both of the girls' choices.
They all spent about 3 hours there and they weren't even done then. Arundelle was done sewing all of their outfits, but was trying to make sure that they fit. She wanted to be sure that each and every thread was in the exact right place. This was really tiring for the kids, for all they wanted to do was to get out of that tiny little seamstress shop.
“You know what I realized?” Sara said, with her arms stretched out because of Arundelle as she was still sewing on her dress. They were all waiting and waiting for Arundelle to be done so all the kids were talking to each other.
“What?” Janner asked, raising an eyebrow curious to what this might be.
“Remember back when we lived in Glipwood? Before I was taken by the black carriage. Actually, it was a week after you three sang to the Sea Dragons. We were playing a game of zizby. But we only got to go two game blocks in, because your grandfather had to pick you up. You know we never finished that game.” she said, smiling uncontrollably.
Janner looked at her like she was out of her mind and said, eyes wide, “Sara, that was two years ago!”
“A game of zizby does not end until all of the game blocks have been completed.” she said, pointing her finger in the air.
“Still 2 years! 2 years!”
“What, are you scared, Janner Wingfeather, or should I say Igiby?”
“Oh it's on! Cobbler!”, he said smiling.
“But wait, Boggle Worms don't live here in Anniera. What are we going to do to the loser?” Kalmar asked, fully on board with this plan.
“Um… from the stories that my father read to me, I remember there was something that grew here called, Gloppity Gloop.” Sara said, remembering the story about an old enchantress who concocted a potion for the king. But it went horribly, horribly wrong and instead of creating a potion for the king she created an entire type of species called Gloppity Gloop. The Gloppity Gloop almost took over all of Anniera but the Forest Rangers were able to contain it. But Gloppity Gloop still grows around Anniera so she thought it would be a perfect thing to do to the loser.
“Yes! yes yes!” Kalmar said, getting more and more excited every second.
“Well, what are we waiting for? Let's go play zizby!” Leeli said, and they all raced out the door forgetting the fact that Arundelle still held the string that was attached to their clothing.
“Wait! I'm not done!”, she called from inside the seamstress shop holding a spool of thread that was quickly unraveling as they ran.
“Oh…right” Sara said, as she walked back gathering the string that she had unraveled. Arundelle shook her head and said to herself, “Kids!”
HAHA that last part was so funny😂😂😂
But wait, the kids sang at the cliffs when they were 12, 11, and 9, and that was almost a year after Sara was taken by the carriage...