Chris was greeted by a myriad of sounds and sights that he couldn't have imagined in his wildest dreams. Strangely build towers filled with candles stood soaring over the spare trees that surrounded him. Unimaginable sounds filled his ears. He stood there looking into the dark sky unbelieving that what he saw was real.

Linda stepped out of the mirror and nearly howled with joy before catching herself. It had been over a week and a half since she had last been outside. She stood silently with her eyes closed as she took in the pulse of the world. She could sense her eyes change to their original color for a moment and sighed.

Snapping back to herself she looked over at the prince regretting immediately that she hadn't told him to change out of his overly formal and rather foolish looking red garb. 'O well, there's no helping it. Not that I have anything to say walking around with golden eyes…' she shook her head from her thoughts.

"Well then that's enough standing around in a park filled with weird people at night in the middle of a city I think. Lets head over to my apartment."

Chris glanced over at her glad to see some sarcasm back in her voice. Even though he hadn't known her long he was able to tell that it was part of her personality. He smiled and nodded still too stunned to speak. He had millions of questions to ask but he couldn't figure out what to ask first.

Linda strolled off with confidence in the world that she was no longer the tourist of. They came out of Central Park without incident towards 5th Ave (I think that's one of the streets around central park, I haven't been there in a while, anyways…) when Chris began pointing finally deciding to break his silence.

"What's that?!"

"Hmmm… O ya, um… how do I explain it…they are called cars, like a…a carriage but without a horse I guess you could say. " Linda turned and smiled at Chris as she crossed the street with a flood of people despite the late hour. Chris nodded surprised to see the smile on Linda's face. 'I don't think I have ever seen her smile before.' Chris thought as he tried to understand the things surrounding him.

Linda mentally jumped with relief after she arrived to the door of her apartment. She had never had to try and explain so many things that she took as everyday items to someone who had no clue. She doubted that her explanations helped any too and it didn't help that people kept staring at the two like they were both crazy. She sighed as she reached into her pocket for the apartment key only to grasp at emptiness. She suddenly panic as she desperately checked all over for the key before remembering her mother had taken it like she always did when they went to the 10th kingdom. Linda groaned and rested her forehead against the door. "Great" she muttered.

"What's wrong?"

"I can't get in."

"Why not?"

"I don't have the key."

"Is there another key?"

"No" Linda growled softly in annoyance.

"Is there someone else who can open the door?"

"No"

"Is there a spell or something to get it open?"

"I told you before that there isn't magic here"

"What are we going to do?"

"I don't know"

"Is there anywhere else we can go?"

"You ask to many questions, you know that?" Linda snarled without looking up. That damned headache was back too. Chris had a slightly hurt look on his face.

'Where's the spare key when you need it.' Linda thought. "Wait the spare key over the door by the stairs."

"What?" Chris asked looking surprised as Linda turned down the hall through a door to only come back a second later with a key.

"Ha, there we go." she said letting them both into the empty room. "Should have cleaned up before we left though I guess," Linda said tapping her foot and looking around "but it's not like I expected any of this to happen. My mom would have a fit." Linda's voice grew soft at the end. 'Man I miss them.' she thought.

Chris tumbled into the room and followed Linda into an adjoining room which he assumed was the kitchen. Linda had her head in a large upright box shifting through its contents. He took a seat at a counter and watched her mutter as she pulled things out and moved things around.

"You hungry?" she asked without pulling her head out of the box.

"Yes."

"Ah ha,, here we go" she said turning around from the frig while kicking the door closed. "Hot pockets! Ready in just two minutes in the handy invention of the microwave." She placed the contents on the table and threw two bars into the microwave and hit the buttons. "Hmm, I bet there is some ramen in the cabinet too so I'll make that as well."

The food was done and Chris stared at the strange contents as Linda began to eat. She was a lot less irritable now that she had taken something for the headache and had started to eat. She glanced at Chris who was examining his food curiously. "It's not going to bite you and it tastes good."

Chris nodded and sampled it. He immediately took a bigger bite and shoveled down the food quickly. "Wow, this is good!" he said between bites.

"One of the great inventions here, instant food."

Chris grinned, he was liking this world more and more. Linda sighed and got up stretching. Well its late and I would love to sleep someplace soft tonight. A prison certainly isn't the best place to get a good nights rest." her golden eyes flashed to their original color for a moment as she spoke.

"Your eyes changed color." Chris said wondering if he was just seeing things. It had happened suddenly.

Linda looked up surprised that he had noticed the flicker. "Ya they did."

Chris decided to ask the question that had been tugging at his mind the longest. "Why have you left your eye color that golden shade?"

"O…" Linda stopped unsure how to answer. "I didn't change the color on my own. Ever since I left that prison I have been feeling strange and I can't change the color back."

"Strange…" Chris mused.

"Anyways… its late you can sleep on the couch, ok?" Chris nodded and followed Linda to where she made his bed with some spare blankets. She smiled and disappeared into her own room and sighed as she look at it. "Its good to be back." she muttered, "I wish I knew what the things that have been happing are about but for now I'm just going to sleep. I'll think about it in the morning." Linda said and collapsed on the bed falling into darkness.


Author's notes

Hey! this is a fluffy chapter cause its been a few week since I last updated and thanks to the snow day I had time to write.Also I'm hoping the next chapter will be writen soon since I acually have a small idea of what I'm going to write. Please read and review and if anyone has ideas for this story, I would love to hear them cause I never acually set out a plot for this story.