Some tales of Faerie - Books, Books everywhere
The first thing the young prince did after the sparkles died down was to get a book and find out what exactly the strange egg that appeared in his tower was.
In the book he found about all the different kinds of eggs in the kingdom, he found out that it would eventually become a dragon! He then found a giant tome about the scaly creatures. It explained how they need to be carried and talked to in order for them to hatch. He tried, oh how he tried. First he attempted to pick it up, but that ended in failure, for it was much heavier then he anticipated, so he just rolled it next to his bed for the moment. He then tried to talk to it, but almost every time he tried, it felt like it was purposely ignoring him. So he gave up, for a while and turned his attention to other matters.
He turned to the only mum he remembers and asked, “Hey mom, do you think, maybe, I could go out and explore? I’ll come back and everything!”
She was not impressed,“Now why would you want to go and do that? The outside world is no place for little children like yourself. You could get attacked by monsters, or worse! No, It’s much better for you to stay here, nice and safe.”
“Now go be a good little boy, and stop thinking of such nonsense.” She finished, with a curt little nod.
He of course, didn't stop thinking about it. He just stopped asking.
That night, before he went to sleep he turned to the only (mostly) sentient thing in his tower, besides himself, The Egg, and told it his plans, of how someday he would leave and get to explore the world he could just barely see through his window. And maybe, just maybe, it listened.
That morning, before his surrogate mother came to talk to him, he went to the bookshelf.
“Mum always comes in here through this thing, but how?” He thought while looking at the doorway to freedom. He could hear her coming, so he quickly grabbed one of his books and started reading.
That is how his childhood days went for the most part.
Reading and Cleaning. His mum would cook some meals for him, the few times she would come up, as he was getting older and older, but for the most part he was all alone.
One day he decided to play pretend and was the king of an entire kingdom, but it mostly just involved him putting people in the dungeon, mainly old women who wouldn't let him go off and do kingly things.
His birthday rolled around sooner then later, and he would have to put away such childish things, like playing pretend, but he would be a teenager, and that opened a whole new bucket of worms.
He had a plan, a plan to try to leave the tower with his mum being none the wiser.
