Oh the evil that is computers! I meant to make chapter two longer but I was thwarted by some un known power, Alas, but fear not! For I write on in a valiant attempt to conquer those enemies to whom I have sworn never ending animosity. Any ways, on with the story. (Seriously though, I know chap. 2 ends really abruptly, this picks up where it left off.)

"I only said that to keep Steph out of tantrum mode. If we can just find a town or a road or something I know we'll be okay," Nora said all this looking at Alex as though asking him not to say anything or question her.

"Alright," he said at last, "I trust you." With that he moved his extremely blue eyes back to ground in front of them.

Nora moved her own slightly grayer ones down towards the peeling soles of her sneakers. If she ever got out of here she'd get new ones. The cool kind too, not the plain boring kind. She sighed. If only they could just be home, you know, just be there. To hell with all this walking.

For quite awhile they walked in silence that is until Stephanie thought it would be a good idea to sing all the Disney songs she new. Which were quite a few. Currently she had just finished with "The Little Mermaid" and was on "Pocahontas" (one of her favorites)

"And paint with all the colors of the wiiiiiiiiiiind!!!" Stephanie sang with all the gusto she could squeeze out of her three year old lungs. She repeated this particular line several more times as it was one of her favorites until finally, she said, "Nora, I'm hungry!"

"All right," sighed Nora, "we'll stop at those rocks over there and have some Gram crackers. Okay?"

"Okay," said Stephanie brightly and she bounced off to the afore mentioned rocks whilst singing something from the Lion King.

After everyone had sat down and Alex and Stephanie were plied with crackers, Steph having an attention span of about 2.3 seconds piped up with, "Tell us a story Nora!"

Nora was a little surprised, she would have thought that after all that walking Stephanie wouldn't even have enough energy to listen. All the same she figured it couldn't hurt, she had always been good with stories. "Okay then," she said, "what would you like to hear?"

"A cool story," said Alex speaking for the first time in a good while.

"Yah," Stephanie agreed eagerly, "but with a Princess."

"Noooo," moaned Alex, "Princesses are boring. I want Robots."

"Nora wasn't really sure what to do with that. Princesses and robots interesting combination. However, inspiration struck as it is wont to do, and Nora tried her idea on her attentive audience. "How about a princess who gets kidnapped by robots?"

"That'll work said Alex in his ever mater of fact tone.

"Alright," Stephanie conceded, "But she has to have a pretty dress, and a big castle, and lots of diamonds. Princesses always have diamonds."

And so began Nora's tale of a Princess who lived in a high tech world where diamonds had special powers and how one day the robots stole her and her diamonds away, but then a soldier came to her rescue armed with his laser gun and robotic exoskeleton.