Free The Last Queen of Lemuria by Gloria Mur

queen and the servant.
    -         "Leave us, Tina!" pleaded Nastia. The servant walked away with a bow.
    -         "Well, how are you doing, Doro?" asked Nastia.
    -         "I'm doing great, Yuma! I made you a present, let's go see!"
    -         "A present? Is today my birthday?"
    -         "No," chuckled Doro, "my present can't wait until your birthday."
    -         "Ok, well where is it?" Smiled Nastia.
    -         "Let's go, it's in the courtyard!"
    They left the bedroom. The palace corridor, decorated with pink marble, and lit by many oil lamps, was empty. Their footsteps rang loudly off the flat walls and floors. The lamps lit themselves based on when the Queen and her brother were approaching. Spacious halls captured the imagination with their luxurious furniture, filled with a rainbow of light, coming through the stain-glass windows.
    -     "What a beautiful palace, Doro!"
    -         "It's like you're seeing it for the first time!" chuckled the prince.
    -         "Well, yes, but... I feel like I'm seeing it all again, through new eyes- how can I explain it to you…"
    -         "No need to explain," snickered Doro, "I know that you're in love! "Greta says that love fills life with different colors!"
    -         "So I'm in love, huh? Greta?"
    -         "Sure. She tells me stories about love."
    -         "Your... servant girl?"
    -         For crying out loud, Yuma! Greta is my teacher and your friend!"
    -         "Ah-ha," muttered Nastia in shame, "you know, Doro, I should tell you a secret. I need your help."
    -         “What happened?"
    -         "Let's go, first, you show me the present! I'll tell you the secret afterwards." Said Nastia, taking the Prince by the hand. They ran out into the garden.
    Nastia noticed that the garden, like the palace, was empty. A pair of servants in blue liveries, but that was all the people they saw on there way.
    -         "Doro, why isn't there anyone here? Where are all the people?"
    The prince looked lovingly at his sister.
    -         "What's wrong with you? Everyone's working to build the ark."
    -         "Well where's the present then?"
    -         "It's right here!" answered Doro, fumbling in some bushes that looked like dwarf trees. He pulled out a silver box with little holes, which looked familiar to Nastia... It looks like... the box from the museum of Shambhala!  Only there, she was holding a huge, heavy box, and here was its smaller copy. When she opened it, Nastia almost dropped the present in her surprise. In the box she saw a… bear cub. She fainted. The chubby, clumsy, koala cub was trembling. He tried to bite Nastia's finger. And it would have been completely normal. If it weren't for the size of the cub. The koala was the size of a spool of thread!!!
    -         "Doro, who is this?!"
    -         "Remember, I said I would catch a mapule? This is him! They live in chisa bushes."
    -         "Where?"
    -         "Over there in the grass," said Doro, pointing to the miniature trees.
    Nastia walked up, ripped off a leaf, tasted it, and smelled it. Doro laughed.
    -         "Yuma, are you playing around?"
    Nastia instantly remembered the smell of the unctuous leaves. The small mini-trees were eucalyptus! And the koala cub lived in a eucalyptus forest, as they do! Either the citizens of Lemuria had bred tiny animals and trees, or…
    -         "Doro, what's the biggest animal in our land?" she asked.
    -         "Are you testing me again? I learned that a long time ago! The largest animal is the twing.”
    -         “Twing... Well, how big is it?"
    -         "Usually about this size," answered Doro, pointing to his knee.
    -         "So what, it doesn't exist any more?"
    -         “Before, in ancient times, lived the forefathers of the twings, but they died