The Castle's Servants: The Dark Curse

Prologue

The road twisted left then right, and there was a huge bump in the road, the rain fluttered on the roof of the carriage to the castles. There was a man with wrinkly skin that was dry as a bone and faint wisps of hair lay on the top of his head which made him look old, but he was only 32. He was heading to the castles in the kingdom of Goca to give the royal family gifts.

This kingdom is unique from all of the others. It has two castles instead of one. The former king, Halven Lance, had built another castle when his wife had twin boys, who would one day rule together. 

As the boys grew older one brother Morte Lance was drawn towards darkness and the other son, Fairen Lance, toward light.

When their father crowned them Kings, Morte married a woman named Muriel. People spread rumors saying that she was a witch. The two were drawn together and then a few years later they had a daughter named Mel Lance and a son four years after named Miles Lance and taught them their Evil ways.

Fairen, however, married the brightest woman in the kingdom. Her name was Elina. She had no bad bone in her body, and was pure as light. They had a son named Rowan Lance, who was the same age as Mel, and a daughter Rosabella Lance who was the same age as Miles and taught their children the good way.

They lived in the two castles.

As for the old king Halven, he retired to a cottage and lived there for the rest of his days.

When the two boys became kings and had their first children the man in the carriage went to them with his gifts.

He was the evilest man who ever lived.

In the carriage with him were two babies, one a boy with brown hair and brown eyes the other was me, a girl with brown hair and green eyes.

The wizard killed the boy's parents because they owed him a favor and they didn't want to repay him.

My parents were cruel; they had killed many people before, including one of their children supposedly.

Two nights after I was born the wizard killed them and took me. The night after that he took the boy and gave us to the kings because he had nowhere else to put us.

The kings made both me and the boy, servants. The dark princess and light prince grew up with us. We all became close friends. I was named Mabel , and the other orphan was named Danny.  We lived in towers next to the castles.

In between the towers was former king Halven's cottage.

Danny and I never left the property ever since we got there. We lived in the towers for fourteen years.

Danny was shy; he always did his chores and never talked back to the kings, queens, princes, princesses or other servants except me. He always did what he was told. But I on the other hand would always wander around, I was always late if somebody needed it at a certain time, the dark family scared me half to death no wonder Danny was so scared ever since he started really working . When we were little, me, Danny, Rowan, Mel, Miles, and Rosabella used to run into the forest and play hide and go seek and tag. Until the dark curse . The dark curse has been in the kingdom for four years. The kids in the kingdom of Goca have not played outside unsupervised ever since the dark curse began. They never go anywhere alone and they stay away from all strangers. All of the children in the kingdom never worry because they know that the kings, queens and their parents are looking out for them and the villages are protected by the knights of the royal guard. Every house was assigned one guard. Danny and I had guards all over our towers. The guards were endless but I still managed to sneak out, to wander around.