"Yes, the palace is beautiful, but not nearly as stunning as this place." Adrienne looked around the practice court, and sighed. Lance didn't laugh at this he was studying Adrienne. She was hiding something from him he could tell, what it was he didn't know but he had to find out somehow. Adrienne brought her eyes back to the boy across from her. She found him looking at her.

"What?" She asked innocently, changing her stretch. Lance shook his head and shrugged bringing his attention back to his task at hand. Adrienne found that he was much more flexible then she.

"So, tell me of your family." Lance said standing then bending over to double himself. As soon as the words had left his mouth Adrienne had turned cold all over. She felt as though she had been dropped into the ocean and was being carried out to sea. And she wasn't even struggling to get back. Silence continued to grow in between the two people as they proceeded with there warm ups. But finally Lance knew she wouldn't have thought about it that long. He straightened his body up and looked into her eyes. They were clouded with unshed tears. She shook her head quickly.

"I'm sorry. Um, I have to go." Adrienne said hurrying her speech. She smiled weakly at Lance then fled away from the practice courts leaving Lance to himself. Adrienne somehow found the way back to her room easily enough. Almost instantly after she was inside Rev came bursting through the door.

"Where on the earth have you been!" Rev stared down at Adrienne with a piercing gaze that could scare even a grown knight. Adrienne cowered back from her, but laid down and looked instead at the wall across the room from her.

"At the practice courts." Adrienne said quietly and slowly. Rev sighed and ran a hand through her black hair stopping at the top of her head. She turned away from Adrienne for a second regaining her composure. When she turned back she looked clam and her eyes the same black, but no intimidating.

"I'm sorry I was just worried, and you didn't even eat anything. This place is very dangerous if you don't know your way around." Rev sat on the bad and looked over to Adrienne who was off in a daze staring at the wall. Rev laughed softly and patted Adrienne on the shoulder.

"Get some rest and food you'll feel better tomorrow." With that Rev snuck quietly out the door. Adrienne came quickly out of her daze. While pretending to be zoned off into her own world she had noticed on the wall a brown hook. It looked at if it could be used to hand a coat or clothing on, but Adrienne having been taught to have spy instincts her whole life thought it looked like a clever way to hide some kind of door. Plus there was a tapestry right beside it. Without drawing her gaze off of it she clambered over to it. Instead of just pulling on the knob to see if the wall gave way she looked at the hook more closely, and sure enough on the bottom of the hook not noticeable unless you looked for it was a small key whole. Next to it were engraved two letters, SP. Adrienne didn't really take a care in these all she wanted to do was get in. She knocked on the wall to the left of it, but found it solid as a rock, and then she lifted up the tapestry and knocked under it. It sounded solid at first, but Adrienne had been taught what a fake wall sounded like. This was definitely a fake wall. She smiled at her finding such a thing.

She tried to twist, lift, push, and pull the hook everyway, but she couldn't get it to budge. Adrienne knew it needed the key, but fortunately she knew how to picklocks. Her mother had taught her how to do it. But before she could find a hairpin to do it with there was a knock on the door. Adrienne cursed quite unladylike and went to open the door. She did and it showed no one. She looked side-to-side, but found on one there. She even went out into the hall, but found no one. Frustrated, both with her hearing things, and the door not opening she decided to take a walk. She wove through the halls until she came to the way to the practice courts she made a decision to take this exit and hope Lance was still not there.

He was there but with someone else. A girl roughly the same age, and laughing at something Lance had said. He was facing her with a sword. Adrienne stood out of sight for a while watching them face each other. They were both superb. Adrienne envied them both. Adrienne sighed and took a walk down a small path. It led her through some gardens. She stopped at a rose bush and leaned down to smell it. As she was coming back up she tripped on a root and fell over backwards into the hedge behind her. However when she thought she was going to his gravel or rock or something of the sort she stopped. Looking over her shoulder she looked into two amused blue/gray eyes.

"Are you ok?" The boy helped Adrienne to come all the way through the hedged and stand. Adrienne searched herself for tears in her clothing. The boy watched with interest as Adrienne sighed in relief to find no tears. Then she turned her attention back to the boy who had a booklet and a writing utensil. She turned beet red.

"I'm sorry where you working in something?" Adrienne tried to hide the guilt, but it didn't work to well. The boy turned to show her the page of the booklet. On it was the beginning of a picture. She saw the outlines of a castle beginning to form, and rolling green hills, a lake, and a setting if the sun. His drawing made her almost be at this place. She could feel the warmth of the sun in her face. The slight breeze catching the flag that hung from on of the towers of the castle. Adrienne looked back at the boy. His eyes were soldiering her face.

"This is wonderful work. Where is this place?" Adrienne asked sitting in the bench next to the boy. He closed the book and opened his mouth to say something then closed it. HE turned his face to her.

"This place is only in my imagination." The boys rolled his lips and turned away from her again. She looked curiously at him. What had he been about to say? She was quiet for a moment then the silence became to much to bear.

"I'm.."

"Adrienne, I think everyone knows who you are. When someone knew comes I'm always the first to hear of it, because I spend most of my free time hanging around the Shang Tiger. But I assume you've met Lanceth?" The boy next to Adrienne said his name with disgust. Adrienne laughed softly.

"Yes, but what is wrong with Lance?" Adrienne narrowed her eyes, and stared at the boy. He swallowed.

"Nothing's wrong with him, he just always gets the knew people to like him best it seems. I mean I once was friends with Lira, but then Lance couldn't have me, a mere commoner have someone like her." The boy smiled over at Adrienne as if all he was telling her was embarrassing. Or maybe he thought she would look down on him because he is a commoner, Adrienne thought.

"What's your name?" She asked trying to start some kind of conversation. The boy glanced at her.

"Peter." He said plainly. He opened up his drawing book again and started to draw. Adrienne shook her head and held I her laughter. Peter obviously was one of those people who didn't like being disturbed while drawing. Adrienne quietly got up and went on down the cobble stone path. She finally came to the edge of a lake. She dipped a hand in and felt her whole body frieze. Suddenly out of nowhere a hand shot from the water.

I know that chapter sucked and that it was super short, but I killed my finger, and its in a cask. So, takes forever to type something. I will update and give you all a super long chapter when I get better. So, please let me know you still want the rest of the story by Reviewing what a wonderful idea. I love it. So weather you liked it (unlikely), hated it (likely), or just don't know what to think, Review! Thanks!