Throne of the Phoenix by J A Armitage & Rose Castro

Author:J A Armitage & Rose Castro [Armitage, J A & Castro, Rose]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Enchanted Quill Press
Published: 2020-06-30T22:00:00+00:00

5th July

“You’ve never forgotten me, have you, Asher?” I asked as the phoenix flew around the room above my head. The newspaper articles were laid out on my bed around me as I tried to piece everything together. I needed Genie’s input. He could see things other people could not. There were so many mysteries. Like who killed the midwife that delivered me? It was a woman, according to her neighbor, and yet the only person I could think that might be an enemy to her would be The Vizier. If he somehow blamed her for my birth or wanted to find me, I could understand that. But it wasn’t him. As far as I could tell, the midwife had no money. The house she lived in was in a less than desirable part of Urbis. If only I’d found my mother. I still knew nothing about her beyond what I’d seen in the memory. I didn’t even know her name. I picked up the adoption announcement of Princess Azia of Draconis and read it again, trying to glean something more from it.

Copies of the Draconian Sentinel were laid out neatly in chronological order starting from January of this year when I’d started collecting them. My bed looked like a chaos of papers, but there was order there. Just no meaning as far as I could see.

A knock on the door took my attention away from the papers. Freya walked in. Her eyes widened at the mess on my bed.

I handed over a photo of Azia I found from a February edition of the Draconian Sentinel. The accompanying article was about how she’d disappeared, but the photo was from an official photoshoot taken sometime the year before.

“Do you think she looks like me?” I asked.

Freya accepted the paper and squinted. “She has different color skin to you,” she said, pointing out the obvious.

“Yes. I know. Look beyond that. Do you see any resemblance?” I took the paper back and held the photo next to my own face. Freya’s eyes darted between the two.

“Not really. You are both a similar age and both beautiful, but I don’t really see much resemblance. Why?”

I moved a stack of papers and sat back down on the bed. “I think she’s my sister.”

Freya furrowed her eyebrows and took the paper back from me. “What makes you think that?”

“Look at her eyes. I know it’s a black and white photo, but don’t you think that bit of lightness around the iris might be golden?”

Freya shrugged, unconvinced. “I’m sorry. I don’t see it. What is all this?”

I looked at the piles of papers and felt defeated. My kingdom was falling to pieces, my parents were sick, and I was no closer to finding out what was going on in all this. And the only person that might be able to see the connection didn’t even know who I was, despite the fact he’d seen me naked.

Some of the kingdoms’ royal families also had babies around the time I was born.

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