I am so sorry to everyone who reads my story that I haven't updated in a month. I've been away but a responsible writer would have left an author's note about that. I'm really sorry that I am so irresponsible. Well, I'm finally putting up the next chapter. Once again, I'm really sorry to have kept u waiting.
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~The next night~
Lani was walking through the halls of the palace, wondering how she would get outside the palace walls to go to the Inn of the Falcon. She would have to bribe a guard somehow. Not with my ring, though, Lani thought. Of course, she didn't want to give away her beautiful ring.
Lani was outside the palace, heading towards the East Gate, which only had one guard standing there. What should I do? Lani thought desperately. She suddenly got an idea. I can put on an act and make the guard feel sorry for me! So she got down and wrapped her arms around her legs and started sobbing, loud enough for the guard at the East Gate to hear.
The guard looked around, lifting his lantern up and saw Lani huddled on the ground. He walked towards her. "What's the matter, miss?" he asked.
Lani continued to sob and managed to get out, "It-it's my brother! He-he's s-sick and my m-mother's gone and d-doesn't e-e-even know about it!"
"Aw, come on, miss, it'll be alright. Just go back and get some sleep."
Lani snapped her head up and cried, "No, no! You d-don't understand! M-my brother's d-deathly s-sick and I'm the only one who c-can help him! Only, I c-can't get through the p-palace g-gates."
The guard looked torn. On the one hand, he had a job and couldn't let anyone in or out of the palace gate. On the other hand, there was this pretty maiden, who would thank him greatly if he just let her out to help her brother. He decided that the latter was better. "Miss, I can let you out but don't let anyone else hear of what I've done, got it? If they do, I'll be fired."
Lani pasted a grin on her face and replied, "Oh thank you, thank you! You are so terribly kind! I won't tell anyone. Could you also let me back in when I come back? I work here and I can't be gone the whole night or I could be fired too. My family doesn't have much money. Oh, and if my brother's still sick, you would let me in and out for a few more days, right?"
"That might be pushing it a little, miss, but I'll see what I can do. Now, go help your brother." The guard opened the gate for Lani and Lani scrambled out. "Wait!" the guard cried out. "I need to know your name so I can let you back in."
"It's Lani," Lani called over her shoulder and disappeared into the black of night. She walked through the dark streets, touching the house walls with her hands so that she wouldn't fall. She had no idea where the Inn of the Falcon was. She saw someone in the streets and asked him, "Excuse me, sir, but do you know where the Inn of the Falcon is?"
The man looked at her strangely and said, "Everyone knows where the Inn of the Falcon is but not many people go there. It's a dangerous place, you know." The man turned and began to walk away.
"Sir, wait! Could you tell me how to get there?"
"Well, all you do is turn at that street up there," the man pointed to the next street that was only 30 feet away, "and you go on straight for awhile. Then you come to the Thebes River, you cross it, and you're practically there." The man turned to go again.
"Thank you, sir," Lani said. The man just grunted in return. Lani walked the 30 ft to the next street and turned. She walked straight for quite a while, wondering how long the street was or if the man really had given her the right directions. Finally, she came to a river. Good, so the man was telling the truth. Unless of course, the Inn of the Falcon isn't across the river. She began to wade in but stopped when she caught sight of a small boat that was just coming from the other side of the river. When she saw who was in the boat, she smiled happily.
"Well, if it isn't Lani, the sneak on my ship," the figure on the boat said.
"Yugi! How are you?"
"I've come to take you across the river though I suppose you would have made it there yourself. Get in."
Lani stepped into the boat and Yugi turned it around to go back across the river. At the other side, the two of them stepped out and walked straight for a few yards until Yugi stopped in front of a building with a picture of a falcon on it.
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I hope u all liked the new chapter. I'll update soon as long as I get a review.