Blood, Milk & Chocolate - Part 1 (The Grimm Diaries Book 3) (27 page)

55

The
Schloss

Lucy
Rumpelstein didn't like the Queen's diary one bit. The itching in her eyes
increased while she read, but she didn't pay it any attention. It might have
been her lenses. What really bothered her was her disappointment with the Queen
of Sorrow's diary. She had never pictured the Queen to be the person she had
been reading about.

Axel, on
the other hand, never thought he'd sympathize with Carmilla that much.

"This
can't be her," Lucy gasped with frustration. "Where is her power, the
cunningness, the evil? I bet this diary is fake."

"I
doubt Pickwick is fake," Axel reminded her. "This diary has been
guarded for one hundred years."

"Then
what's wrong with the Queen of Sorrow?" Lucy said. "None of these
events explain how she ended up the way we saw her. The way I love and adore
her."

"She
ended up selling her soul to Fate, didn't she?" Axel speculated. "I
think that will have a great effect on the rest of the story."

"You
think so?" Lucy's eyes brightened. It must be Fate, she thought. Fate must
have wrapped her in perpetual sorrow and she'd ended up some kind of monster.
Lucy liked the idea.

"I'm
really more interested in the seven items in the sack," Axel said.

"What
about them?"

"Never
mind." Axel waved his hand in the air. Lucy didn't care about the sack. "Tell
me something, Lucy. Do you have any idea why Carmilla didn't get the diary
herself? Why ask you?"

Lucy said
nothing. She had thought about it before, but couldn't find an answer. "See?
I'm telling you something is wrong with all this diary thing."

"Tell
you what," Axel said. "I see we're only halfway through the diary.
There is a whole other story there, and there are so many unfinished threads to
the tale."

"Okay,
I will read on." Alice peeked back into the diary. "Look," she
said. "There is a note, right after the chapter with the Moongirl."

"Then
read it, please."

56

The Queen's
Diary

All
Hallows' Eve,

10th
Year in the Reign of King Angel Von Sorrow.

1803 AD in
the Waking World.

Less
than a day until the Eclipse.

As I take
a small break from the writing, I see you must think I have made this story up.
You must think I am a deceitful liar, or how in the world did I end up where I
am now?

You can
surely find the answers in the events that followed on my journey to build my
own Kingdom of Sorrow. You'd know things like what was inside the sack, and why
I was given it. You'd know about the Moongirl and the Tower of Tales, and all
the unimaginable things that shaped our lives inside the kingdom—the sort
of things that don't even happen in fairy tales.

When you
know about these things, I think you will understand.

Now, I
need to go back to writing. The clock on the wall is ticking. Soon it will be
midnight. I told you what that means. I will be obliged by then to do something
horrible, terrifying, and unimaginable.

But before
I begin, I take one last look at the canvas hung on the wall in front of me. It's
sewn in beautiful threads, the finest in the world. I think it's Persian, but I
could be wrong. It has a sentence written on it, in beautiful calligraphy. A
sentence I have only fully grasped tonight. It's a well-known saying, one that
will stay with me—and with you—forever. It says:

Things must be loved before they are lovely.

I feel an eminent heaviness
in my heart as I read the words now. Why haven't I paid attention to it before,
I don't
know.
But then again, I, the Queen of Sorrow,
have
always been a mystery, even to myself.

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