Went Isabelle and Jack came into the cave we quickly went down the beanstalk. It didn't take me very long to regret everything I did. Leaving so angry without even saying goodbye, what if something was to happen to Elmont and I'd never see him again. Luckily I had this revelation only a few minutes into climbing down the beanstalk.

'I have to go back up.'

'What. NO!' My sister exclaimed

'Don't worry, I'll be back. I just have to say something to Elmont and then I'll be back.' I said 'You can wait or go further down, but I'm going.'

'Just, be careful, ok?.'

'I will.' And there I went, climbing up again.

I climbed out of the cavern to see Elmont standing in the field with his back to the cavern.

'Elmont?' I called out

'Sarah! What are you doing here? Climb down, please.'

'I will, I promise. But I was so angry when I left and I couldn't climb any further. Promise me you'll be careful.'

'I will, I promise.'

'And promise me you'll come down safely.'

'I can't promise that.'

'But you have to, because I don't know if I can still do all of this if I don't have you by my side.' I felt a tear streaming down my face.

'Do you understand now why I can't let you stay?' Elmont said while wiping away my tear. I pressed my head into his hand. And there we stood for a moment 'Because if something would happen to you, I could never forgive myself. I don't know what I would do without you'

Elmont put his face closer to mine and it looked like he came in for a real kiss, but kissed me on my forehead instead. And I realized right then and there that I may care more for Elmont then I ever knew. I wanted him to kiss me. Maybe I should kiss him then, but maybe I read the signs all wrong and he was never coming in for a real kiss. And if this was his decision I should honor that.

'Now go, and live, and love, and who knows maybe I will come down safely, that is my goal after all.'

'Yes and its well-known that if you set your mind to anything you always end up getting it anyway.' I said with a smile. We both chuckled for a bit. We embraced each other and pulled apart again.

'Go now or Jack and the princess will be too far down to catch up to.'

'You'll have to let go off my hand first.' I said. I raised our hands in between us to keep them up to eyesight to show that he was in fact holding my hand. I don't even think he actually noticed taking it.

'Of course.' He let go off my hand, but in a way he didn't have to. Of course he had to because I couldn't really go anywhere, but I would also have been all right with capturing that moment and living in it for the rest of our lives, but he was right I needed to get down and he needed to rest before taking on Roderick.

I turned and started to walk away but I only took one step when I felt Elmont's strong hand around my arm and pulling me back to him. We came face to face when he looked into my eyes as only he could. And then he kissed me, only for a moment though, then he ended it, he didn't have to, he really didn't. I felt my eyes still closed and my lips still perched. 'What the hell am I supposed to make of this' I thought to myself. As I opened my eyes I saw Elmont standing in front of me but it wasn't the Elmont that I said goodbye to just a moment ago, who wiped away my tear, or the Elmont that just kissed me only a second ago. Elmont was back to having the weight on his shoulders of being the captain of the king's guard, back to being a soldier, a fighter and a man who was very distant from me and that kiss.

'Princess, you need to go, Jack and your sister will be waiting.' He said. Princess. He hasn't called me princess in a while now. It felt weird, princess was a name of high stature, of someone who was above you, not a close friend. It was like me calling my father the king, something I only did when I was mad and tried to create a distance between me and him. Was that what Elmont was trying to do now, to take back his kiss by calling me princess, to make the two of us distant to each other once again, just like we were before, back in Cloister. I was left puzzled but followed the order and went climbing down the beanstalk once again.