| Anna held up her hand and said, “Wait a minute. If I understand this correctly, what I am hearing is that if we could get a second chance for the Dark Queen, that maybe she would take it in trade for her power. What I am saying is that Splash has to do a good deed every day. He even has special abilities to help him do those good deeds. What if his good deed was to make the Dark Queen a young woman again? In trade for her powers, she could get the chance to experience the things she missed.” “Wait right there!” The queen interrupted. “In order to even have a chance this would happen, you would need to go in front of the Dark Queen and explain. I would guess you would have little to no chance of ever getting to say anything. Most likely you would never even reach her sight. Her army or the Geese Police would end your life before you ever saw the Dark Queen.” “Not too mention that it is very unlikely she would believe you.” The king added. “Ah but father, I have not yet shared with you everything there is to know about Splash. He’s not a donkey. He will be the reason the Dark Queen will have to believe what I say.” Upon saying that, Anna reached over to the nearest couple of glasses with liquid in them, and threw the contents on Splash, causing some of the brown shoe polish to wash away, revealing there was a blue pony with a white mane, under all that brown shoe polish. More of those near Splash began throwing their drinks on him as well, until all the brown shoe polish was washed away. There stood the very blue pony with the white mane and white tail and white socks; that the queen had seen so very long ago when the leprechaun gave her and the Dark Queen their powers over magicland. next page |  |