Chapter One - The Mermaids Crown

It was strange, sitting in the royal gardens everyday knowing that I would go home to a lake and a little cottage beside it. Everything was so nice here, so clean, so beautiful. This could be the last time I set foot in the castle, with Filip going off to war and selection day coming up. I knew I was going to be taken this year, I was the last one left besides Sophie. Belle's daughter had been taken a few years back, and Mulan's child had been taken years ago. I was the last princess. It was my time for a story of my own. It had to be me. Didn't it?