Peacemaking
Disclaimer~ As always, it's not mine.
"My lord?"
Ling laughed and turned to Lan Fan. "We're alone and we're friends, you can call me by my name."
Lan Fan frowned as they trudged through the sunbaked sand; she would do no such thing. Sweat prickled between her skin and her ceremonial mask, but she refused to remove it. She was not at all pleased with the journey. Her stump ached from stressing the automail before she should have, her grandfather's body had been shipped to Xing without them and the Chang girl was accompanying them home. Despite the strange peace she had made with the girl, she couldn't really feel comfortable around her.
"We are not alone," she reminded her prince, shooting a glare at the girl who kept her distance behind them. "The Chang girl cannot be trusted, my lord."
"She's my half-sister, and her name is May, besides you asked me to protect her clan."
"Only because I knew it would destroy you if you didn't. But I did not expect her to travel all the way with us."
A moment later the Chang girl's footsteps stopped. Ling sighed and turned in tandem with his bodyguard. Lan Fan rolled her eyes as the tiny creature perched on the Chang girl's shoulder let out an annoying squeak.
"I can hear you," the Chang girl called out, narrowing her eyes at Lan Fan. She could practically feel her master's eyes burning holes in the side of her skull, so all she did was scratch at her aching automail port and sigh again.
"I am sorry, Princess," Lan Fan said with a slight bow. "I do apologize for disrespecting you."
May's face broke out in a sudden grin. "Ling is right, you are much too formal! You do need to loosen up a little."
Before Lan Fan could so much as scowl at her master from behind her mask, Ling had taken off in the sand, cackling like the mad man he was.
