There wasn't anything she could do. Really there wasn't. I mean, if she stayed around, she would probably be bored to death. Besides, they didn't really need her.
Starfire, the royal Tameranian princess, carefully tied her blankets together and climbed out of her window. 'Darn the gravity!' she thought. She had visited other planets such as Earth where the gravity was so little, she could even fly. But here on Tameran she could only walk like a normal person. It was odd; this didn't affect visitors from other planets when they came to Tameran. They were able to walk, run, fly, slither, like they did on their home planets. 'It must be something in my DNA,' Star thought, quoting her favorite movie.
She had stayed as long as she could possibly manage on her planet. Se supposed if she hadn't been a princess it would have been a lot better. She would have had to attend all of these horrible receptions toasting strange foreign dignitaries. And she could have had friends. The way it was now she wasn't allowed to play with commoners. It wasn't that her parents had anything against commoners; they just didn't think a princess should be seen playing with them. Never mind how much Starfire had tried to convince them that having friends among the commoners would help her have a better connection to the people, her parents only believed in maintaining their images.
And then there was her sister. Starfire had read in several books how sisters commonly bickered and argued. But there was something different in her relationship with Blackfire. Whenever Blackfire had been sure Starfire wasn't looking, she had always given Starfire the worst glares. And she always seemed to be watching Starfire's every move. It wasn't Starfire's fault that she was the youngest daughter. Tameranian control passed to the youngest daughter instead of the oldest son like on other planets. Since her mother couldn't have any more children for various medical reasons, Starfire was the royal heir. Starfire had no interest in the ceremonial duties that her parents engaged in far too often. It was Blackfire who wanted control and enjoyed adding to her growing list of allies through the many balls and dinners.
All in all, Starfire just wasn't cut out for the life of a princess.

Starfire quickly finished tying the blankets together. She had left a note for her parents and one for her sister as well. 'They shouldn't worry too much. Besides this way, Blackfire can rule as she has always wanted.'
Starfire carefully secured the rope to her bed, and descended from her bedroom to the courtyard below her. She had already placed her belongings down there including her jewels which she would have to sell for money. As a princess Starfire had never handled money, everything she wanted was simply given to her and the bill sent to her parents. After Starfire left the courtyard, heading for the stables, she missed a dark figure emerging from her closet.
"Good bye, little sister," Blackfire laughed as she watched the retreating figure. "You have no idea how happy you have made me."
Starfire continued on, trying to locate the stable in the dark.
At last she reached it. Checking for guards, she was happy to find that they were sleeping heavily in an alcohol-induced stupor. She had sent them wine earlier in the day and everything seemed to be working out.
Unfortunately, Starfire had never been that observant when it came to some things. She completely missed the dark figure that was following her as she left the stable with her beloved horse, Apple.
As she mounted the horse, she thought she heard a faint noise behind her. Turning quickly, she was unable to see a thing. She quickly mounted the horse and rode it toward the edge of the castle grounds. She entered the forest and carefully made her way through it.
She was still unaware of the following presence.
When she had decided she had ridden far enough, as she had ridden for well over three hours, she quickly undid Apple's harness and released her. Apple's tracks would be too easily followed. Starfire quickly walked toward the creek. She carefully lifted two tall shoes out from behind the rocks next to the small creek. She placed the shoes on her feet and hovered. The shoes were a gift from another foreign dignitary named Gizmo. He had designed them just for her. They were specially designed to use magnets to reverse polarity and reverse the planet's gravity. Starfire smiled as she moved upward. The bottoms of her feet were still in the water, to mask her scent. That way even the special tracking birds along with the dogs would be unable to pick up her scent. She made her way down through the creek, still unaware of the figure following behind who was running to keep up with her.
She never had been that observant.
After another few hours, Starfire grew very tired. While she had been careful to get a lot of sleep during the day, claiming she was sick, she was still unable to cope with the sudden change of sleeping hours. Finding a small clearing she decided to sleep for the night. No one could possibly find her, she had traveled too far in too short a time. No one that is except for the figure who was still following her. They really need to teach the princesses better.
Starfire woke up quite early in the morning. Tameranians only needed to sleep for short bursts but they did need to sleep deeply for those times. As Starfire woke up, grew accustomed to the light, and finally remembered where she was she was startled to see the dark figure rooting through her belongings. Carefully, she got up and approached the figure. As she was about to kick the figure from behind, a sharp blade was pressed against her throat and a voice behind her spoke.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you, princess," the voice said.
Star saw a hand reach around her and press a button. Instantly the dark figure, or should I say hologram, disappeared from in front of her. Starfire carefully evaluated her options. "Why would you think that a simple girl such as myself would be a princess?" Starfire gave a fake tinkling laugh.
"When the simple girl wears a dress embroidered with diamonds," the voice said calmly.
"Darn it! I knew I had forgotten something!" Starfire said. She pulled off her dress making a loud tearing noise in her impatience and revealed the simple shirt and breeches below. "How could I forget? I rode and walked for miles in this. How could I miss it?"
Starfire suddenly whirled on the man holding the knife. Or should she say teen? The boy was probably about her age. "Why didn't you tell me?"

"What? Why should I help you? Why would I think you were different from any other air-headed princess? I'm just an assassin trying to do his job."
"Assasin?" Starfire perked up. "Oooh. Who are you trying to kill?"
"Well...ummm..." the boy suddenly seemed to become very uncomfortable.
"Well?" Starfire demanded.
The boy snapped. "If you really want to know, I'm hired to kill you!"
Starfire said nothing for a moment. The boy expected her to burst out crying. Instead Starfire raised her head. "Some assassin you are!" she retorted.
"What?"
"Well you said, and I quote, 'Why would I think you were different from any other air-headed princess?' If you were a good assassin you would have known for sure. Haven't you researched about me at all? Dud you just think you would sneak up on me and stab me or something?" Starfire said calmly.
"It's not my fault the first day I arrive to infiltrate the castle is the same day you decide to run away. I'm lucky I found you before you finished going through with this stupid plan. And, in case you've forgotten, I'm the one with the knife. I sprayed Gorish, which you well know as a Tameranian poison, on you while you were sleeping and your starbolts won't work for another few hours."
"You wouldn't kill me." Starfire spoke again calmly.
Something flickered in the boy's eyes. Starfire couldn't see exactly what since he did wear a mask. "I've killed before and I'm not afraid to do it again," the boy said softly.
Starfire looked at him a moment then burst out laughing. "You're some assassin! You've never even killed before!"
"How do you know?" The boy asked.
"Because I can read people's emotions. I'm not entirely devoid of observance skills. I can read most people like a book."
The boy shifted his weight uncomfortably. "Well, I'm still at an advantage."
"No you're not," Starfire quickly moved away from the boy before he could respond. She lit up a starbolt in her hand. "You really should have tried to research some more. In case you didn't know, all royalty is immune to Gorish. It's in our blood."
"Darn it!" The boy kicked a tree truck hard, then winced as his foot turned and a sudden pain emerged from his foot.
"Here let me help you," Starfire said, moving quickly. She lifted his foot and bathed it in a green light. "This will help."
The boy yanked his foot back. "Why are you helping me?" he asked, suddenly curious.
"Well, you obviously couldn't go through with killing me. You would have simply killed me in my sleep verses risking any hidden weapons I had if you were to wait until I woke up to kill me. But you let me live so I'm assuming that you just couldn't kill me. Unless you were an even worse assassin than I imagined and completely forgot about the fact that I could have hidden weapons," Starfire's words were harsh compared to the soothing glow around Robin's foot.
"No, I couldn't go through with killing you. I'll settle for the lesser of the two faults. Any other failings you have noticed, oh royal highness?" the boy asked dryly.
"Well, that impoliteness. It really has to stop. If we're going to travel together I at least have to know your name and you still haven't told me."
"Robin, and I already know you are Starfire."
"You know that much at least," Starfire smiled.
The then boy did a complete double take. "We're traveling together?"
"Of course. Didn't you know?" Star said calmly.