Lia walked with her hands shoved inside of her pockets, feeling frustrated, hurt, angry and tired. How can one man have such an affect on her?! She could still hear him taunting her. She absent-mindedly kicked a pebble in front of her as she wandered.

As she rounded a corner she heard a small noise. She blinked and listened closely. It was a small muffled voice. She followed the sound and was surprised to see Aslinn. She was bound with ropes and gagged.

She was about to free her when she noticed she was being guarded, by none other then Sir Didymus himself. She thought back to the book and realized of all Sarah's other helpers he was the easiest to persuade.

"Aslinn!" She cried out coming toward them,

"Halt!" Didymus shouted stabbing the ground just in front of her feet. There were a few differences in him she noticed, for one that his small rapier was replaced with a long broad sword. "No one is to approach the prisoner!"

"I'm sorry." She said feeling disgruntled at the difficulty of loop-holing his instructions. "But I was informed by the Goblin King that you're needed at the castle and I'm supposed to take your post."

"Indeed?!" He shouted sounded excited, then he paused looking at her suspiciously, "Where ist though sword?"

"Um…" She stuttered for an explanation, "I don't need a sword, I have powers." She said suddenly, realizing how lame her lie sounded.

"Powers?" He asked astounded, "What sort of powers?" Yes! She cheered inwardly.

"Actually, I'm not supposed to speak of them under orders of the Goblin King," She said easily. "But I was warned that if you didn't arrive at the King's Castle soon I'd be banished so please for my sake hurry!" She urged him.

"Of course, my lady!" He shouted, "Ambrosias! Come!"

A shaggy hound came to his side and he climbed atop the saddle, hurriedly riding toward the castle. After he reached a small distance away she untied Aslinn,

"Powers?" She asked raising an eyebrow,

"Shut up." Lia said grinning. "Now we just follow him to the castle." Lia said.

"Ya, that was the only slick part of your plan." Aslinn said, "I would've been too busy thinking up a better alibi then to try to secretly get directions."

"Hey, that alibi just freed you, so lets go." Lia said leading the way.

So Lia followed Sir Didymus, making sure to leave enough space between them to not be seen. Which it wasn't hard to follow Didymus, considered he talked to Ambrosias the whole way. Lia watched as they approached the castle, Sir Didymus entered the gate.

"Well there it is." Aslinn said.

"I'm not sure what to do now." Lia admitted.

"Well, I'm thinking we storm in their, kick butt and you go home." Aslinn replied.

Lia thought about it and shrugged, she didn't really have a strategy at the moment.

"Ok, kick butt, it is."