We walked over to the door beneath the balcony and turned around as we saw the guard pushing Halt over because he didn't want to leave, he quickly stood up and walked further. Alyss and I looked at each other and quickly went to our room.
We sat down on one of the bed's and noticed the room for the first time, it was huge at least 20m in width and 30m I depth. The room was sort of divided in two. With the door on one side marking the middle line. The right part of the room if you stood by the door had furniture all made of light wood, whilst the left side had furniture with dark wood.
We looked at each other and I said. "I'll take the light side, and you can take the dark." Alyss nodded.
I walked over to my side of the room. As I sat down on my bed I noticed, we both had a dresser and a writing desk and two chairs each too, and a bed. A small salon table with a mirror and we also had a mirror. We also both had a screen which we had to change behind. I also saw a cabinet and walked over to it.
Then I said to Alyss "I think the cabinet is for dresses and the dresser for shirt and pants." she nodded.
We sat in silence for a minute while we heard Will and Horace, Gilan and Halt being brought back to their prison by guards.
We sat in silence two more minutes watching Night play with the ball I had found in my dresser. Then someone knocked. Alyss walked to the door to open it.
It was the dressmaker with two maids. She gave us both three dresses, a light blue one, as blue as the sky with small pearls on the chest. And a red satin dress which reminded me of the dress I had when we where visiting the Arrida. And a white dress which looked like lady Paulines bride dress. We tried all of them and all of them fit. We put them away in our dress cabinet. Then the dressmaker told his maids to go get the fabric and she asked us to stand with our arms spread in our undies so that she could make some dresses for us.
The maids came back with a purple, a pink and a yellow fabric. Alyss with very pleading eyes asked her if she could drop the yellow dress. She did so after a time we had a pink, a purple and three other dresses. We thanked her and where thinking of which dress to wear, when Night jumped on the bed and jumped around. Something that meant she had to go to the toilet.
I walked to the door in my simple dress and I called for Benjamin, he with grace led Night out so that she could do her necessities. Alyss and I chose the red satin dress.
When we finished dressing the door opened again and in came Night, Benjamin had to wait outside the door until we where ready.
We heard someone knock and again Alyss went to open. This time it was Markh, he said
"My ladies. The dinner is served soon and I have to show you the great hall." We followed him down the stair to the hall.
As we entered the hall Alyss and I looked at each other and we thought of exact the same, Halt's wedding.
We sat on the large table on top. We both sat on Markh's right side. The table was large enough for five people, so there would be two more people on Markh's left side. As we sat waiting the hall got full with Maid's and generals. The poor guards had to stay outside.
When the food was served I first noticed Halt, Gilan, Will and Horace. They were eating quite good. They must have had very little food. When we finished eating all the maid's and generals left. Now it was only me and Alyss, the boys and Markh left.
Will walked towards the podium and started playing Alyss and I clapped and Markh actually sang the songs too. Then Alyss and I stood up.
"We want to dance." Alyss said. Markh gave us permission and soon we were swirling around having fun. We giggled, and grinned and when we had almost gone all around the hall we stopped. We stopped just in front of Markh, and Alyss bent over and whispered in Marks ear.
"Can we dance with the prisoners?" Markh nodded again
"But can you get someone else to play because I want to dance with that one." She pointed at Will.
"Guards, go and get our own Jongular." Markh said. The guard walked off and five minutes later he came back with another musician. The other musician started playing and I walked over to Horace whilst Alyss walked over to Will, we danced and we had fun.
Then at around the tenth hour we stopped. And we walked to our room. We talked and chatted the whole night and I felt friendship building in me.
"God, Horace that was fun wasn't it." I said to Horace.
"Yeah and the food was great too. How did it go between you and Alyss?" Horace said.
I almost punched Horace in his, very painful spot.
Halt said "Hey boys don't fight. I know it was fun after being locked up in this room but I don't think we will get out of here soon." As soon as Halt finished someone knocked on the door.
A guard came in and said "The ladies have decided that they want you to have some more fun and have there fore allowed all of you to go riding but you can only be gone for some hours more details to follow, but there will be no guards and if you do not come back lord Markh says "You better come back or you friends will die." with friends he means the two ladies, they know this too but they still want to give you some fresh air. They trust you so don't disappoint them."
The guard left.
"Wow, that's much to think about. You know if we take our weapons from where we hid them than maybe we can just train a bit, I think this will happen again sooner rather than later."Gilan said.
"Well it was a tough decision to make but I hope they'll use the time to practice their skills." Alyss said.
"Me too, they mustn't disappoint us. Well we can go groom our horses or flirt with some guards, what's the plan?" I asked.
"Well I was thinking we don't need to practice our skills but what we could do is starting to plan the rescue." Alyss said.
We sat in silence thinking for five minutes when someone knocked on the door. "Come in." Alyss said.
It was Markh "Ladies, my apologies, but I have to tell you that there will be some rules now. Before you ask, it's not because you've done something wrong, but there are... well, some of the citizens have started protesting against us. And well we have captured their leader. And we need the prison for that. So what we will do is we'll let the prisoners now go free around on this floor."
"Why only this floor?" I asked
"Well, you seem to like them, and well there is much space. Do you accept?" Markh said
"Yes, we do accept, anything to make life easier for you Markh. But what are the rules." Alyss said.
"Well, first of all, you will not be guarded, but I trust you to not do anything strange. Secondly you are not allowed outside the walls of the castle, so when riding the horses it has to be inside the walls. Third, the prisoners will not be prisoner, they will be allowed to follow you around the castle but they shall not be walking around by themselves. Fourth, I still expect you to be at dinner every evening." Markh said.
"We shall follow these rules, but may we have the prisoners belongings, they will be locked in our dressers, it's just so that no one else, or that the people who protest will take them." I looked at Markh while I said it.
"Well... Yes... I think there is a possibility... Yes I will bring them here at once, the prisoners will be brought here in two hours." Markh said, I smiled at Alyss and she smiled back.
Markh left the room and Alyss and I tidied away our stuff to make room for some mattresses. We sat on Alyss her bed and talked.
"You know Alyss, when we started this journey, I thought we would be rivals, and I chose you to accompany me, firstly because, well I know you like Will and you wanted to rescue him, and also, well you were someone who had the same goals as me, and we both really wanted it. But I have been quite selfish, but I also chose you because I wanted to get to know you, and I have always wanted to be your friend." I told Alyss
"Well, you know I am really happy they got kidnapped, sort of, I have always wanted to be your friend to and this is a very got chance for that. Well now let's see what will happen." Alyss told me.
I had Night on my lap and I was tickling her belly when someone knocked on the door. Alyss went to open. It was a guard he was carrying three bow, a whole box of arrows a sword a shield three double knife bags and three sax knifes and three other knives, we also saw Horaces shield and armor.
Alyss took it in her hands and gave me Gilan and Horaces equipment while she took Will and Halt's. We put it in our dressers and awaited their arrival.
We sat and chatted for a while when someone knocked again. This time I opened the door and there was Markh holding Will and Horace and two other guards one holding Gilan and the other one holding Halt.
"Markh how nice of you to escort them here personally, they must be honored, but well will your bring their belongings here too?" Alyss asked from behind me.
"Of course he will, he wouldn't be that mean. Well come on hurry up, you must stop those protesting people." I said
Markh looked a bit surprised and said to the guards, "Go get their belongings. NOW"
He pushed the four men in the room and closed the door.
Alyss grinned, hadn't expected that. Alyss said while grinning "Well here you are then, must have been very easily guarded up there, he wants to put the leader of the protest in there." "Yeah, well, now come on we got some things to discuss" I added.
We walked to the chairs and put the four chairs in the middle of the room facing the beds. We sat down on the beds and gestured that they had to sit down on the chairs. We saw they all sat down silently.
"Hadn't expected them being so quiet had you Cassandra." Alyss said
"Stop calling me Cassandra, can't you just call me Evanlyn." I said to her. "Well enough about that tell me why your here." I continued.
They stayed silent. "I think someone took their voices don't you Alyss, well if you won't talk. I'll tell you what we know. Well Halt and Horace, your here because someone in Gallica will pay quite a lot for you, but Will and Gilan, your still alive because he doesn't want Halt and Horace to kill each other if they kill you." I said.
Now the men began talking, or well Horace began talking. "Well, who in Gallica would want to pay for us, or why would they want to pay for us. I have my suspi..." I stopped him in mid sentence.
"Someones at the door." I said as I walked to the door and opened it.
To my surprise it was Benjamin. "Hey, Benjamin how are you? Come in." I let him in.
I walked back to my bed and sat down. Benjamin just stood there. Horace stood up and offered him his chair, then he walked over to me and sat down beside me.
"Evanlyn, I got news, it is all just a trick no one is protesting, we have to escape tomorrow at least, Markh is planning on giving you the choice of or getting everyone including you killed or to save Alyss and Yourself you'll have to marry him." Benjamin said.
The breath git stuck in my neck and I couldn't say anything, I fast came back to my senses and said
"Well we have a plan. We'll have to escape tomorrow. Is he going to ask me tomorrow evening?" Benjamin nodded and I continued
"Well what we'll do I we'll pack our stuff and escape tonight. Were allowed to ride anytime, so that is no problem. And well we'll just have to fight our way out."
"It's a good plan, but there are two problems, first we don't have weapons, second you can't fight." Halt and Gilan said.
Alyss and I grinned "We forgot to tell you, we've had lessons, sword fighting, bow and arrow, knives and slings. And for the problem with the weapons, we have them. Surprise, huh." Alyss said.
We walked to our dressers and gave them their equipment, they had their capes. Alyss and I started packing and soon we had all our stuff in our bags. Then we changed into our ranger clothes and soon we looked just like ranger. We had the slings, knives and arrows on our belt, we had the sword in on hand the bow in the other and the bags on our bag.
The men looked at their weapons and looked at their good condition. When Alyss and I came from behind the dressing area. Their mouths fell open.
"Why are guys always so surpirised Evanlyn?" Alyss asked sarcastically.
"Well they always think their the best well, were no idiots." I answered with the same sarcastic tone.
"Okay well we've got everything packed, so lets go. Wait, Night shhhhhhhhh." I said.
We slowly walked out of the room carrying all our stuff, then we walked down the stairs, as we had expected all the guards were sleeping. We walked to the stables and saddled our horses. We put the bags on the horses and I tightened Night's basket on my luggage, then I sat on Amber and waited for the others, they were finished too and we rode off prepared as always.
The gate was open which was a surprise we followed Halt until we were almost on the main street then I said
"Hey, I bet there's an ambush there, it was far too simple. Let's take this way."
They followed me and I rode on in a backstreet, we silently rode until we came to the forest.
We all heard a scream, and saw at once it were the Scotti, they cam riding out the forest right against us. In the front I saw Markh Macburg. I got angry deep inside me.
I started shooting and hit some warriors but they got too close I saw a warrior have his sword high in the air ready to lounge at Alyss, I pointed my arrow at him ready to shoot, I puuled it back and let go...
Will Evanlyn kill the Scotti before he hurts her friend.
Read on to find out.
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