Indigo was still torn up over the disappearance of their mother, so Lila took the lead. She looked up and at where she felt the others. Her voice was still soft, but she tried to make it loud, "Um, I'm Lilac and this is my sister Indigo. Our mother is, uh, the evil fairy Maleficent?"
"I'm Maple! The daughter of the Gingerbread Hag." Maple said with a smile, tugging on a tangled bit of her long brown hair.
Lorelei noticed the Iris message and answered, seeing a girl who looked familiar. “Hi, what’s wrong?” she asked, noticing the girl’s facial expression. Based on that, her parents were missing too. Was she Red Riding Hood’s daughter?
Quentin rolled his eyes and shrugged off Amaris’s hand. “I’m here to help, princess,” he scoffed. “Don’t worry your pretty little head.”
“Are your parents gone too? Or is it just royals and my parents?” She was concerned, her parents had been teaching her survival since before she could walk, how could they just be gone.
Rilla's head was spinning. They couldn't be missing; they couldn't, they couldn't. Her parents went off to visit a town three days ago, saying they would be back in soon. She had noticed it was strange they were gone for so long, of course, as they were never gone this long without sending a note. Rilla hadn't thought too much of it, believing there to be a simple delay. But missing? She closed her eyes, fighting off the urge to search all the earth for her parents.
“My mom’s gone,” Lorelei confirmed. “I can’t find her anywhere, and she always leaves a note before she goes somewhere more than like ten minutes away, or at least tells me beforehand most of the time. I think maybe someone’s targeting us, though I don’t know who or why.”
"Because of what Amaris said, my mom has probably been kidnapped as well…" Maple said, her smile faltering for a quick second before fixing it.
“Why is this happening! To us! Why! What have we done!?”
"I don't know," Lilac said letting go of Indigo so the other could compose herself. Indi took a deep breath and looked to the others steel-eyed.
She said in a low voice, "Whoever did this is going to wish they hadn't."
Lorelei pressed her lips together. “I don’t think it’s what we’ve done so as what our parents have…I mean, my mom pissed off a lot of people,” she admitted, looking pretty pissed off herself.
Quentin offered Rilla and Maple a comforting smile. “At least we’ve got each other, right?” he said gently, which was both the most coherent and the most kind thing he had said so far. Even if he felt awful, he didn’t want the others to feel that way. Well, that definitely wasn’t always the case. His parents’ disappearance must be getting to him.
"Yeah," Maple agreed with Quentin, "We all have each other also we'll hopefully have little trouble getting our parents back!" She now had a true confident smile on her face.
"I guess," Rilla reluctantly admitted. It would be better to search for whoever took their parents together. Still… it was strange, how suddenly all their parents were missing. Who took them, and what did they want with them?
"Well those were only part of the stories they lived through. My parents are good friends with Jafar despite the weird things he did." Amaris said. "Hold on, my parents told me that simple non magical beings known as Humans read these stories and thought of them as things called Fairytales." She said.
Cato's eyes widened and his hands moved furiously as he signed. 'I read an old book about these, but only thought of them as myths.'
"Humans?" Indigo laughed slightly. Her voice was mocking, "If you think humans kidnapped our parents you have to be crazy. There's no way magicless myths could come and kidnap our parents."
"That's ridiculous. Faeries don't even talk to humans," Cersei rolled her eyes.
“I’m human. I know there aren’t a lot of us here, but I’m human.” Scarlett stared daggers at Indigo.
(Humans as in those not part of the fairytale land. Scarlett would still be a "Faerie" without magic)
Adella's face screwed up, mother had told them about humans and how she used to live there until people stopped thinking she was real. Adyn laid a hand on his twin's shoulder, the presence comfortable. "Our mother told us about them. They'd horrid creatures."
Rilla recalled what she'd read about the species in books; they weren't very reliable. "I don't know," she frowned. "Don't humans usually keep to their own realm?"
'Usually yes but I cant think of any reason as to why they would want to kidnap our parents.' Cato spelled. He looked to the group and frowned.
Risa nodded in agreement, biting her lip.
Lorelei’s brows furrowed with confusion. “Then who took them…” she mumbled.
Quentin gazed off into the distance with a frown.
"Only way to find out is to search the lands. My maids said they saw people dressed in full black come and take my parents. That is the only thing I know a out who could have taken them." Risa said. She took a step towards the town and gestured with her head. "Theres no use in talking where everyone could hear. We had better go somewhere safer. Who knows, maybe we may be next."
Lorelei bit her lip. “Okay, where do you suggest we go then?” She wound a golden curl around her finger nervously.
Indigo pulled out her book, "We could go to our mother's tower. I could get us there in a jump."
Cersei squinted in confusion. "Why would that be helpful?"