All Chapters of Wild Beauty (Silver and Shinja): Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

"What I am about to tell you may seem a little bit crazy," he picked her up and they both stood facing each other. "You have to promise me that you will not to be afraid. Do you promise to stay firm as I say what I have to say next?" She watched him as though he had lost his mind. She was not going to let him off easy for hiding and making her worry.  

On opening the door, Silver had walked to the end of the room hiding behind the makeshift dressing room where Shinja could not go uninvited. When she called out to him so he could come and eat, he pretended not to hear a thing she was saying. "Don't you like the food I brought you? But you have not checked what it is at all. Or are you not hungry?" she cried out pensively. 

Pink-White had not mentioned whether the visiting families were to engage in the search for the princess so Silver came forward to confront him about it. He was not going to sit back and watch other men fight for the woman he loved while he stayed back enjoying guest privileges at the palace. He was determined to come with the search team. "Please king tell me where I and my horsemen are going to pass. Thank you." 

The king used the junction that linked to the Middle Forest. Even when he had done that, he did not leave before having his mother's Secret Garden. He sent his men to search it dry and they came back with nothing helpful. The place was deserted as though no one had ever occupied it before. Terese had disappeared immediately after Shinja left. The princes, Brown and Silver, watched the king instruct his men to search the flower garden because that is how it appeared to them. Terese had put a charm over it that no one expe

"But papa," Shimpi said nearly bursting with laughter, "I have not said anything." "You did not say it but I know you were thinking it." "But---"