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"Ouch! Stars Alice! Are you putting me in a death contraption? Not so tight please!" Izabelle yelled out loud as the seamstress pulled on the cord tightly. 

"Hush! Don't you want to look good for the engagement? Sure you do.  Everyone does.  Do not fret." The seamstress instructed not caring for her words.  It was the week of the engagement and she would not have anything less than perfect presented in front of the crowd. 

Izabelle huffed. Apart from the small torture, being with Mrs Weatherly was fun.  She was young and energetic in her own way. 

"I would have had it not been for the fact that you dragged me her against my will while I was reading.  No one messes with a person who is reading." Izabelle said in the darkest voice she could muster.  She was reading her favourite book about place far away with prince in disguise, magic and a few sword fights. 

"Yes, yes, whatever you say." the seamstress pulled the threads again knotting them while Izabelle tried to catch her breath.  She was definitely taking out her anger on her for not coming in one call for the fitting. 

Izabelle hummed. She wasn't that much annoyed.  She had recently poured her heart out as she wrote to her parents in the library.  That's when she had seen the book and started a new adventure.

"Finally. Now you can stop fretting and go as soon as you are out of the gown.  That's the last of today's fitting." Alice said and Izabelle jumped up excited which got her another poke of the needle. 

"Ugh. Just help me out of this already." Izabelle grumbled sourly and the old lady laughed.  She had plans for what she wanted to do now.  It did not include getting poked my needles and becoming a clown for the seamstress.  "Let me my Lady," Becka said as she moved towards Izabelle to help. Izabelle fearfully accepted the old woman's help not wanting to stay in the torturous dress any moment longer.  She wondered why they had to be like they were. Breaches would be far more comfortable than the corsets she imagined. 

"You are no the only one going through this so don't grumble." Alice scholded as she helped pull out pins.  Not the only one?  Did that mean the lord too was getting a garb made?

Izabelle didn't voice her thought, she simply wanted to run back to the library and knew if she did, Alice would find a way to get her back.  That lady was not of this world according to her. 

"Well then,  this is it.  After a final fitting tomorrow, you would be able to wear this gown on your engagement.  How fun is it?" Alice chirped as Izabelle shot daggers at her.  Now that she was done she could go back in the far off world of princes and magic.

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Izabelle couldn't breath as she tried to think who it could. Her love for winter was growing with every word she read. 

"What are you reading?" Izabelle screamed out loud not having expected anyone to speak out or even sneak up on her. 

"Do not ever do that again." Izabelle said in a stern voice however she was shaken to core and her heart beated like the wings of the humming bird. 

"You should be more aware of your surroundings Miss Edwards." The lord said mockingly.

"You should not sneak up on people ."

"You win.  So what is it that you are reading?  Your nose is always in the books." Izabelle was surprised at the curiousness.  She wondered how someone could not have read the books he owned. 

"I can't tell you, you will have to read to find out." The lord stood up suddenly and a loud growl like voice tore through the room.  In a second Izabelle was pined against the wall. 

"Are you trying to mock me!?"

"No, no..! Why would you even think of that! " Izabelle asked scared. Her heart was back to its frantic state.  The mood swings of her captor were getting to her. 

"How dare you!" The lord yelled and th voice seemed to tear out through out the manor.  Suddenly the servants were rushing to see what the ruckes was all about. 

Izabelle stood pinned against the wall frozen.  Her eyes were huge and water.  The aura of the lord was scaring her.  An odd energy she had noticed before when he is angry was clashing all around her. Unlike the other times she could somewhat comprehend the situation she was in. The light in the library was enough to see something she couldn't before and feel a stress on her body she didn't remember from before. 

It wasn't before when like the previous times, she fainted.

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