"Sure, let's look on the Internet" Beth said.
"What have you found so far?" her mother asked.
"Just a book that didn't seem to have anything to do with Patience" Beth said.
"Well we'll just have to keep looking" her mother said. After an hour of searching she sighed and asked in an angry undertone "Why can't we find anything on her?"
"Because our family never made it into the history books" a female voice said from the doorway. Beth and her mother snapped around to face the young female they saw at the door. She couldn't have been more than fourteen. "Allow me to introduce myself" she continued. "I am Princess Rachael. Princess Patience is my older sister."
"How can you be here then?" Beth asked.
"I am immortal" Rachael said. "I can not die by any ordinary means."
"You're lucky" Beth's mother said.
Rachael scowled and said "Try living for over a thousand years. You get to watch family and friends die while you can not. Try being run through with a sword hundreds of times and feeling the pain. Try being burned at the stake just once let alone ten times. Try being hung sixty times. Try being beheaded five times. Try being tied to a large rock and drowning over and over until you are able to free yourself. That has been what my life has been like."
Beth gulped and said "Compared to your life mine doesn't seem so bad now."
Rachael hung her head and said "If Patience cursed you like she cursed me your life will be a living hell."
"Wh-what do you mean?" Beth's mother asked.
Rachael looked up and said "I can see the energies of the immortality curse on you. The same that Patience used on me."
"You... you mean that I'll... I'll..." Beth began.
Rachael nodded and said nothing.
Beth's mother though shrieked "Beth can't live through that and remain sane!"
Rachael sighed and said "She may not be able to retain her sanity. However there is hope. There is a counter curse for the immortality curse. I have not been able to find it though."
"You've had over a thousand years to find it" Beth's mother said. "How come you haven't found it?"
"No one has really looked for it" Rachael said. "Most believe that immortality is a great gift though they would be wrong. And to be honest I stopped looking after five hundred years."
"Why did you do that if you don't want immortality?" Beth's mother asked.
"Because after five hundred years the curse can not be lifted" Rachael said looking down.
"Oh you poor child" Beth's mother said.
"She's hardly a child Mom" Beth said.
"In the eyes of everyone I am fourteen and a child" Rachael said.
"So why are you here?" Beth's mother asked.
"I was following Patience's magic and it led me here" Rachael said.
"Patience told me that she had wanted the throne for herself" Beth said.
Rachael nodded and said "She did."
"So your family never made it into the history books" Beth's mother said. "Why is that if you father was a king?"
"Our kingdom was one of the smaller ones" Rachael said. "Father did not do much of importance to get into the history books."
"Did you father's wizards turn the maidens back into knights?" Beth asked.
"They were able to change them back but not me" Rachael said.
"What do you mean?" Beth asked.
"The name I was given at birth was Richard" Rachael said. "I was born a boy. Though during my studies of the arcane arts I learned that I was suppose to be born a girl. I told Patience what I had found out and then I went to tell Father. That was the day that Patience had decided to seek the throne for herself. A week later as Patience was backed into a corner she cursed me with the immortality curse and changed me into a girl like I should have been. She had said that if she couldn't have the throne than I would not have it either. Father's wizards could not change me back to a male because Patience had twisted the spell."
"That must have been horrible for you" Beth's mother said.
"I quickly became accustomed to it" Rachael said. "I was re-christened Rachael and two years later I was married to a prince. After Father died the two kingdoms became one."
"Did you have any children?" Beth asked.
"I did" Rachael said.
"I wonder where your descendants are now" Beth's mother said being truly curious.
"I have followed them throughout the years" Rachael said. "You two are my descendants."
Beth couldn't believe that. It couldn't be true, could it?