Chapter 41

Rapunzel

The Council Village was even busier than usual. The Council of Rulers had been meeting longer than any time in living memory. Messengers rode at breakneck speed back and forth across the Kingdoms. People quietly searched for the missing heirs. Others searched not so quietly for alternate solutions to the enchantments that were threatening the stability of the Magic Kingdoms.

Then a stranger from the north had sauntered into town and inquired the way to Poond. The guards rushed him into the presence of the King of Poond. After five minutes with the stranger, the King's shouts roused the Council. A corps of riders rode north on the causeway. The villagers gathered in the square to speculate about the cause of these proceedings. Some said that the northern kingdoms were invading, others that civil war was breaking out. Few said wait and be patient. As the day wore on, they wandered back to their work.