Lily screamed. "Father, what do we do?"
"Only thing we can do." Sam said.
"Fire!" Herman yelled as torches were thrust at them.
"It's okay, Hermie." Lily stood in the front of him, knowing the terrible effect fire had on him. "Father?"
Sam sighed. "Lily... we have to flea."
And knowing the villiagers would chase them... they had no escape plan.
Just then, a loud, boom! was heard.
Herman had just fallen through the wall. A wall that was actually a secret tunnel. But if the villiagers would follow them, it was useless. Completely useless unless somebody stayed behind to fight them off.
Sameron eyed the family, then stared into the very core of his elder sister. "Lily, thank you for always being there for me."
"Sameron, no!" Lily knew what he was about to do. And she was sick to her stomach.
"You are the best big sister I could have ever asked for."
"Please, Sameron!" Lily, now crying, pleaded.
"I love you." Sameron paused. He looked at Herman, seriously. "Take care of her, Herman."
The family would not budge.
He was now on a time crunch, the villaigers closing in on them. "Herman, do you love my sister?"
"I'm not leaving you, Sam-" Lily was cut off.
"More than anything." Herman replied, matching his seriousness.
"Then take them away."
Herman pondered this.
"NOW!" Sameron screamed.
"No!" Lily begged.
Herman then carried Lily off, dragging Sam with him.
And Sameron, alone, prepared to face the villiagers.
They ended up in an underground cemetary. A tearstained Lily was kicking and screaming all the way down. When Herman finally did set them down, Lily stared at him. She beat on his chest, she cried some more. "No, no no!" She looked up at her husband who felt very sorry that all of this had happened. "Herman, how could you? I'm supposed to protect him! What kind of mother am I?" She didn't even realize, at the time, the trauma she must have gone through, how terribly wrong that last rhetorical question truly was.
"You're not." Herman said. "Lily, dear... you're his sibling. You're supposed to look out for eachother."
"Herman..." Lily cried into him, he held her and wept a bit too, he had thought of Sameron as his own brother. "Oh, Herman! This is all my fault!"
"Lily, don't turn this around on yourself!" Sam yelled.
"Herman, I can't run a kingdom." Lily sighed, mid-cry. "I'm sorry."
"Lily, neither can I." Herman hugged her tighter.
"We have to leave." Lily's instincts immideatley took over. She broke the embrace and begun to walk.
Sam and Herman followed. "To a place where this will never happen again. To a place where we'll be accepted and respected."
"Where?" Both Herman and Sam asked in unison.
"To America."