Chapter 7: Hello... Stein

A/N: I know I haven't updated in a long time... sowwy.

Elizabeth pushed Prince further up the corridor, she had his arm again and the dagger was at his back. "Keep going, I wanna get out of here before someone comes looking for you." She ordered.

Prince didn't say anything, he merely picked up his pace. Patty walked behind her sister, arms swaying at her sides, as she sung to herself.

They continued for a minute, then Elizabeth heard footsteps clacking towards them from up the hallway. "Someone's coming! Dammit...!" she looked left and right for a hiding spot, but there were nothing but the solid walls beside them. "Uhh...! Uh...!"

Prince kept his eyes on the hall's end, waiting to see who had come here.

It was his one of his father's personal knights. Stein. He stepped slowly into view, his silver armor illuminated by the blue lanterns. "Well, well what do we have here...?"

Elizabeth removed the dagger from his back, attempting to hide it from Stein. She felt her body start to shiver at the sight of the man. He radiated... strength? No, more like something terrifying. She slowly slipped it into it's case at the side of her leg. Did he notice?

"Stein. What are you doing down here?" Prince asked, voice calm and cool. Elizabeth raised her eyebrow. She would have expected him to run to Stein saying 'Oh thank goodness, someone has come to save meeee!' But no. Why wasn't he ratting her out?

"Your father ordered me to look for you. And I seem to have found you. Who are these two young ladies? They don't seem familiar." Stein started to twist some kind of screw that was lodged in his head. Kriiiick. Kriiiick. Kriiick.

Elizabeth flinched at his question. What'll this little punk say...? She looked at Prince, sending off a 'you'd better say the right thing' aura.

"They're my escorts. I've recently hired them." He stated.

"Oh?" The knight asked, tilting his head to get a better look at the two girls. "You hired women to be your ecorts? And they're not even armed. That doesn't seem very wise."

Prince turned to them and smiled, making the sisters blink in confusion. "No, they're very reliable."

Patty couldn't help but giggling happily at that. Elizabeth looked over at her and back to Prince, a still confused look on her face.

Stein stared at the three of them in silence for awhile before turning around and leaving without a word. Elizabeth waited until she was sure he was gone before speaking. "Hey." she looked at Prince.

"Yes? What is it?" he answered.

"Why'd you do that? You could've easily ordered him to arrest us or whatever..." she explained.

Prince didn't reply for awhile, then he spoke. "Well... maybe I don't want you to be arrested." He began to walk ahead up the corridor, the sisters still confused, followed. Elizabeth still held his arm and the dagger was still at his back, but she noticed something about his behavior. When she was doing this before, he was tense and his movements were stiff.

Now they were relaxed, somewhat more anyway. His shoulders weren't as high and his arms weren't as high strung. She shrugged it off and continued the path to the castle's main lobby.

But... there was someone at the end of the pathway.

King Death.

End of Chapter 7: Hello... Stein?

A/N: Ahhh, what a stupid ending! Anyway, review and you gets a new hat.