Chara should be happy to be home safe with her mother, they should go back to normal, but she can't.. she can't get that demon out of her head.. why!? She should be enjoying the time with her momma and friends and neighbors but she just.. can't, her heart hurt, why did the queen kick her out? She thought they were just starting to get along...
"Chara! Lunchtime!" She heard her mother calling but didnt want to go to her, she wanted to go back to the palace... she wanted her warmth back..
"Chara! Are you coming?" She sighed to herself and stood up from the pond and began walking in the direction her mother was in, as she was walking her eyes were locked with her mothers, she was so beautiful and always gave her everything she needed, she should be feeling obligated to stay with her.. not with someone she just met.
Maybe she could sneak back tonight? Just to get some answers, she deserves that at least.
"Hey sweetheart, I made your favourite, strawberry cheesecake!" This made Chara forget everything she was thinking of as her eyes zeroed in onto the cake making her mouth water, momma always made the best cakes and she only ever made them on special occasions, she didnt question the occasion and immediately sat down at the small wooden table and waited for her mother to come and cut it for her.
They sat together in silence as they slowly got through the cake, while eating they would give eachother small glances but then look right back to their dessert, they didnt know what to say to eachother and the mother didnt want to bring up their time in the palace, all she cared about right now is that her daughter was alive and by her side, as long her as her baby was safe and happy her life had meaning.
"You know I love you right?" Her daughter suddenly spoke up and her question left her speechless, of course she knows this.. why would she even ask?
"Of course I know sweetheart, what's on your mind?" Her daughter simply shook her head and looked back down to her plate, her motherly intuition told her that something was going on in that mind of cluttering thoughts but if she wanted to talk about it she would..
"Nothing momma I just wanted to make sure, you're my whole world."
With those words she got up and walked to her room, she looked to her plate and saw that she had left a lot of cake behind.. she always used to finish it, what was wrong with her baby?
...
She began picking out some warm clothes for the walk tonight, she hated to worry her momma but she couldnt tell her she was going back.
She layed in her bed until nightfall came, she snuck out of her room and quickly peeked through her mommas door to make sure she was sleeping, thankfully she was.. she gently opened the door and closed it behind her, she was going to get her answers and her closure.
...
She arrived at the palace and stood staring at the crooked gates, she was frozen.. what if she was denied access or was just kicked out? She sighed and pushed the gates open there was no point in overthinking now. She walked to the two large vine doors and imitated the pattern she saw the guards draw and to her relief the vines started separating and revealing the door.
Once they were fully unveiled she knocked gently on the door and was greeted by the two looming guards and even though she couldnt see their faces she felt they were giving her looks of confusion as to why she was back.
"I.. I'm here to see the queen.. please"
They looked at eachother before standing aside, in their minds it was her death sentence.
She walked the halls trying to remember her way to the room but stopped in her tracks as a painting caught her eye, it showed three powerful looking demon women all incredibly beautiful... one of them resembled Lucy with her markings...

She was so mesmerized by the painting that she failed to notice famine stalking towards her.
"What are you doing here, vermin?"
She pulled her eyes from the painting and turned her attention to the small demon, surely she would stop all contact from the queen... and she really needed to see her.
"I want to speak to the queen, that's all I promise!"
The demon looked to the painting then back to the rabbit
"Then why are you in this hall staring at a painting?" The demon asked with heavy confusion in her voice
"It just caught my attention.. they're so beautiful.." the rabbit turned her head back to the painting to admire it one last time, who were these women?
"These were known as the greatest queens to have ever ruled. This one is our current queens mother, too kind for this realm." The demon pointed to the one who had no horns
Too kind? So lucy actually grew up with good influence behind her? Then why did she turn out so... cold?
"Anyway come with me, I'll lead you to her room and you can wait for her there." The demon was quick to turn and begin walking which forced the rabbit to rip her eyes away from the painting and catch up, she was finally going to see lucy again.. she was going to get her answers..