Ready to be Royal
Crossing Moats and Climbing Towers
Princess Camille calls everybody over again, and explains the next lesson. Princess Ashlyn is afraid of heights, but Princess Camille says this exercise is about using your brains and magic to get Princess Pegeen and herself down. She sings:
Use your very best brain power.
Cross the moat and climb the tower.
Princess Willa suggests pretending they’re fish and swimming across. Princess Kendall says maybe they can jump on the stones across. She takes a big leap and falls straight into the water. She sits up in the moat and laughs. Apparently that wasn’t a very royal thing to do. But, since she’s already wet, she wades across the moat, scrambles up the bank, and crawls through the ivy.
Princess Kendall opens the door and lowers the drawbridge. All the students thank her as they cross the moat dryly. She smiles and sings:
Next time that I cross a moat,
I sure hope I have a boat!
Princess Kendall points up to the vines on the tower. Maybe somebody can climb up them and open the window. Princess Ashlyn offers to, but Princess Willa reminds her that she’s afraid of heights. Princess Ashlyn admits this is true, but she feels she has to be brave if she’s to be royal.
Princess Ashlyn takes a deep breath, tucks her wand in her sash, and begins climbing. Slowly, she made her way all the way to the top of the tower. She lifts the latch of the window, and it swings open. Then, she pulls her wand out and says “Abracadabra! Cock-a-Doodle-Doo! Make this magic wish come true. I wish we were birds!”
Just then, the princess birds fly down from the tower. Princess Pegeen did, too. Princess Emerson recites the spell to turn them back into princesses. Princess Camille thanks them for freeing them from the tower. And, she has one last surprise for them.