The story continues...Day 2 Word count 1425

We didn’t need a lawyer right away. No one in the Borealis family started suing until the Wednesday after the celebration.

We felt a bit obligation to have one for them. After all, not everyone falls asleep for one hundred years and manage to look so good. Sure, they were wearing very outdated clothes, but no one was decayed. At first there were rumors that zombies were coming out of the castle and they were all going to kill us and several men ran off to find suitable weapons. Those men only came back once it was clear there were no zombies, but they insisted they were really only looking for special zombie killing rakes and hoes.

But the celebration only lasted from 6pm to 10pm, and we had to pay neighbors from nearby towns to come in and look giddy with happiness. The rest of us were too busy being curious about the royal family.

Aurora was younger than I expected – the same age as my youngest daughter, the Fair Megan – 16. Aurora was pale – the effect of being inside for so long perhaps, with long blond hair, and a thin, horse like face. There wasn’t any other way to describe it. Poor thing, her chin looked as if a bridle would fit right over it. Just as the party was almost over, someone must have told her a joke because she laughed and it sounded just like a whinny.

Her parents, Stefan and Leah, weren’t all that kingly and queenly either. The king burped constantly, even in the middle of a sentence. I thought maybe if he lost some weight or stopped drinking beer for more than thirty seconds, maybe that would help. The queen – well, as the young people used to say- obviously thought she was “all that.” And she wasn’t. Unless “all that” meant “a woman who insists on alternately picking her teeth at the table and scratching underneath her bra.”

The celebration was on a Sunday evening, Day 212 of the year of the Magic Lamp. Then the following events occurred:

• Day 213: The king, queen and princess all had physical examinations
• Day 214: The aliens landed, took over the world, blasting everyone with their ray guns until Will Smith got in a rocket and blasted the mother ship

Crap. How did Independence Day get in here? Now what?