Isle of the Lost by Melissa de la Cruz
Author:Melissa de la Cruz [Cruz, Melissa de la]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Fantasy, young adult
ISBN: 9781484712955
Publisher: Disney Hyperion
Published: 2015-05-05T04:00:00+00:00
Just be yourself, there are other ways to show strength than your fatherâs kind. Benâs motherâs words rang in Benâs ears as he sat down to meet with Grumpy, who had been elected to represent the dwarfs and sidekicks in their petitions.
Great. Wonderful. Just perfect. A one-on-one with Grumpy.
Ben shook his head. He suspected anyone else would have been a better person to negotiate with than the crabby old dwarf.
Last time theyâd met, the infamous dwarf had been insulted by a sugar cookie.
These talks were doomed.
Ben wished that people would stop telling him to be himself. It sounded like such simple adviceâand maybe it would have been, if he had had any idea who himself was.
But who was he?
Prince Ben, son of King Beast, heir to the throne of the great kingdom of Auradon?
He was certainly nothing like his father, who knew how to enforce his rule without forcing it on his subjects. Ben cringed to recall how he had stood on the table and yelled.
That wasnât who he was.
He was Prince Ben, son of King Beast and Queen Belle, heir to the throne of the great kingdom of Auradon.
And if, like his father, he was meant to inherit the throneâthen it would be on his own terms, as his motherâs son and not just as his fatherâs heir.
Because, like his mother, Ben was quiet and gentle and loved nothing better than to disappear into a great, thick book. His childhood hadnât been about hunting or sword-fighting or besting someone else on the field.
It had been spent in a library.
He shared his motherâs love of reading, and he always had. Benâs fondest memories were of sitting next to Queen Belle at the hearth of her magnificent libraryâs enormous fireplace, reading by her side. Heâd be digging into a pile of books dragged from the lower shelves, while hers were always taken from the very highest. It was paradise.
Once, when his father had discovered they had spent the entire day hiding in the library and scolded them for skipping out on a royal luncheon banquet âfor the sake of a story,â his mother had mounted a passionate defense.
âBut these arenât just stories,â sheâd said. âTheyâre whole kingdoms. Theyâre worlds. Theyâre perspectives and opinions you canât offer, from lives you havenât lived. Theyâre more valuable than any gold coin, and more important than any state luncheon. I should hope you, as king, would know that!â
King Beastâs eyes had twinkled, and he had lifted Queen Belle into his powerful arms with one easy motion. âAnd, as youâre my queen, I should hope you would know how much I love you for that!â Then heâd gathered up his young son, and the three of them had made a late lunch of cream cakes in the garden.
Of course.
Ben smiled. He hadnât thought about that day in a long time.
He found himself thinking of it still as Lumiere ushered the older dwarf into the conference room.
Grumpy nodded to him and took a seat across from the prince, his short legs swinging like a childâs.
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