She is Louise - стр. 24

Elizabeth hadn't realized that her daughter had met a boy. She and Edward decided to leave the girl in Steppes and Fields with Galya. Galina is a proven person, because she was also a Butterfly in the past. Louise will grow up to be a real princess. At the age of eighteen she will get what she never dreamed of – power, wealth and servants. And most importantly, magic. The girl will master it perfectly – Galya will take care of it. Everything was going to be all right. The big day was still six years away, but Mom and Dad often thought about how they would come and get Louise and take her away. Tell her who she was. But how will the girl take it all? Of course, the girl knows that she will become a Butterfly – Galya told her long ago. But the daughter does not know everything. The reins will fall into her hands. The reins of power. To command and control people. That's the way it's decided. That's not to say the parents want it that way – yet for every father and mother, it would always be better for their child to be perfectly ordinary. Lived among peers, went to school and had friends. What else is needed? And mom and dad would go to work, and on weekends would get out all together to the movies or the bike park. But in the magical story everything is different: Louise "languishes" in a shack at the Glade, and Elizabeth and her husband live in a high-rise, trying on the roles of office workers. It will be like this for another six years – until the year two thousand twenty-eight, life will go on as usual. Then they will see her – their daughter, all grown up and ready for anything.

Louise must live her life according to a clear plan – going to Forest School and sometimes walking in the Glade. No social media, fancy things or peer acquaintances – nothing to keep the girl in Galya's house. Of course, there is a tiny, literally one in a million, chance that on the right day, Louise will meet the right boy. A simple human boy. With disheveled hair but a pure soul. Far from trendy. And then, only then will Louise fall in love and their souls be glued together. As long as they're apart, they'll suffer. Thoughts will not rest. But when they see each other, a new, unknown happiness will open up. But that's impossible, absolutely impossible. "Oh, there was a letter somewhere, a letter that came a little while ago. From my Louise! …"

– You okay?

– I'm good.

– We're weird. And this whole thing is weird, too.

– Yeah, I guess so," Louise agreed. It was just the two of them now. They were standing in the middle of a huge flower meadow. A chorus of steppe butterflies buzzed around them. You know, Forests and Steppes are a world of wonders!