Chapter 4- A bird in a cage

Odile's room was at the top of the castle tower.

Rockford had put her there, after he taken her from her parents.

She was the most beautiful Princess in land, and her parents were good and kind

Rockford had asked her father to marry Odile.

"We must ask my daughter what she thinks."

Odile was brought to the wizard.

"Odile, this man is asked me to marry you. He says he is very rich and that he will make you the happiest Princess in the world. What do you think?"

Odile looked into the wizards eye.

"Do you promise to love me forever, with all your heart? Will you love me so much that you will not think of what you want, even if it hurts you to do this?"

The looked in her eyes and her question made Rockford uncomfortable.

"Why do you ask such questions? I told your father I could give you everything you could want."

The Princess smiled and turned her head away.

"I'm sorry father, but I will not marry this man. He does not know what love is."

They did not then that he was a wizard. Rockford had looked like a Prince, He wore clothes and looked very handsome. But, when he heard what Odile said to her father, his face began to change. It become old and ugly. His clothes changed from blue to black.

"You do not know what you are saying, you silly girl. I do not have to ask for what I want. I am a wizard, and I do anything I please."

He waved his hand through the air, and a fire started in the castle where the Princess and her parents lived. He turned Odile into a small bird in a cage, and carried her to his castle where he locked her up in a tower. The entire kingdom was destroyed by the fire, and her parents were kille. There was a real bird in a cage in Odile's room at the wizard's castle. The wizard had put it there so that Odile would remember the power he had over her.

He only let her leave the castle as a swan because he did not want other men fall in love with her. At night, she stayed in her room talking to the bird who was her only friend, she called the bird Patrice because it was her mother's name.

"Oh Patrice, what should I do? The ball is tonight, and I am a prisoner here. I believe the Prince loves me with all his heart. I saw it in his eyes, He loved me even as a swan."

The bird began moving it's wings wildly. It always knew when something horrible was about to happen.

"What is it Patrice? What are you afraid of?"

Odile heard her keys in her locked door. She put the bird and it's cage behind a curtain, because she did not want the bird to see what was about to happen.

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