Robyn breezed blissfully into the airship. She was so happy she felt like she was floating on air. She was completely oblivious of Sportacus watching her with his arms folded and a bemused smile on his face. Her daydream was shattered when she heard a voice saying something to her.
"What was that?" Robyn asked dreamily coming back to her senses.
Sportacus shook his head and repeated, "I said, who was that you were with?"
"Oh," Robyn nodded then her eyes took on the same dreamy quality they'd before and she smiled a smile to match, "that was Kit."
Sportacus smiled knowingly. He'd seen what had gone on between Kit and Robyn on the ground and both had appeared extremely interested in each other.
Bessie had given Sportacus the low down on teenage hormones and all those kinds of niceties for those things he'd need to know about. When Bessie had outlined what the typical teenager was like he'd been amazed when he'd compared Robyn to the things Bessie had told him, Robyn never had mood swings and was always extremely placid. Rebellion had only been a problem six months before in an isolated incident and had been quickly resolved by Robyn taking direct responsibility for her actions.
Robyn seemed to come out of her daydream again and looked around the airship distractedly. "I'm sure I came up here for something," Robyn thought out loud.
Sportacus chuckled, "maybe it was lunch?" He suggested with an amused smile.
"That was it." Robyn said and looked to the fruit counter to prepare some lunch but saw some there already, "oh, you prepared lunch already."
"Well yes I can do lunch." Sportacus answered wryly.
Robyn replied to Sportacus' quip with a look that said, 'I know.'
With the conversation over Sportacus started eating his sandwich but stopped when he saw Robyn staring at hers with a strange expression on her face.
"That's not going to eat itself you know." Sportacus stated pointing to Robyn's sandwich.
"I know. I'm just not hungry. I might go out again." Robyn got up from the table but was stopped from going any further by Sportacus quickly putting a hand on hers.
"Eat it." Sportacus pressed.
Robyn sighed and sat down again. She ate her sandwich and without a second look at Sportacus climbed down the ladder again. Sportacus shook his head with mild annoyance. He didn't know anything about this stranger except his name and decided he'd have to talk with him.
Kit wasn't there when Robyn came back. She felt a little disappointed but guessed he'd gone somewhere else in the town and started to look for him. She was about to head over to the Mayor's house to ask if anyone had seen him when out of the corner of her eye she saw something moving between some trees. Robyn walked slowly over to the trees, for some reason she was feeling extremely cautious. She walked past the tree line and walked over a familiar path. Someone was following her as she walked along the path, she could feel it. Robyn picked up her pace a little and followed the path as if she was being dragged to something in the distance. Eventually Robyn came to a large billboard which seemed familiar somehow. She was now some distance from the town and could still sense the person behind her.
Slowly Robyn turned and her blood ran cold when she saw who was following her. She recognised the figure. The figure moved closer to her and drew something from behind its back, the glint of metal caught in the sunlight and Robyn tried to run away but couldn't. Before she could scream she felt a sharp pain in her abdomen and looked down to see a knife lodged there. Robyn could feel blood rising in her throat but couldn't taste it in her mouth. She looked to her attacker who smiled before thrusting the knife back into her abdomen. Robyn screamed and fell to the ground in agony.
Kit heard the scream and started running to where he thought it had come from. He was startled when Robyn's uncle jumped from the airship and landed next to him. In normal circumstances he'd introduce himself but someone was in trouble. In a short while Kit and Sportacus made it to the bill board and saw Robyn lying on the ground. Sportacus was instantly propelled back to the day that Robbie had died and wished fervently that Robyn was ok. He knelt beside Robyn and took one of her hands in his, her skin was warm and she had a steady pulse beating in her wrist.
Slowly Robyn opened her eyes. Suddenly the memory of what had happened entered her head at the speed of light and she sat up sharply feeling her stomach, there was nothing there. There was no blood and no pain. Lifting her blouse there were no wounds, nothing had happened. In her confusion Robyn didn't notice Sportacus and Kit beside her and she slowly got up and looked around as if she'd misplaced something.
Kit looked at Sportacus with a mix of puzzlement and worry on his face. Sportacus seemed to be just as clueless and was equally worried, something wasn't right here.
"Princess?" Kit asked hoping for a response from Robyn, she was scaring him.
Robyn turned but didn't look at either of the men but raised a finger to her lips as if shushing them. "There's something here. He died here. You were standing there. The person, it was her." Robyn whispered and before either man knew what was going on ran off down the road back towards town.
Yet again Sportacus was propelled back to that same day and knew somehow where Robyn was headed. His suspicions were confirmed when they came to the very spot where Lily had died. Robyn knelt down next to the slab stone that covered the hole Lily had fallen into and tried to lift it. Kit and Sportacus looked to one another and shrugged. Kit knelt down and helped Robyn lift the slab and where he saw nothing it was evident Robyn saw something as she jumped back with a slight scream.
Sportacus caught Robyn before she fell over; she'd gotten up way too fast and had faltered. Kit replaced the stone and came to stand next to Sportacus. Robyn closed her eyes and then opened them again, it took her a few seconds to realise where she was. She remembered everything and moved from Sportacus arms to stand next to the slab.
"I saw her down there. She stabbed him and ran away. She killed my daddy and died here. She smiled when she died. She died in that hole." Robyn's voice became more and more excited the more she spoke.
"Robyn, are you ok?" Sportacus asked with a great amount of concern audible in his voice.
It took Robyn a few moments to answer but when she did she turned and looked at Sportacus and Kit. "I think so." Was the deadpan answer.
Sportacus walked over to Robyn and gently led her away from the slab. Robyn seemed to come back to herself more the further away they got from the slab. He thought it might be an idea to have Pixel run a scan over Robyn to see if he could find anything.
Kit followed, he was still shaken by what he'd seen and was extremely curious.
Robyn stopped walking suddenly when the three were outside Pixel's house and turned around when she sighted Kit she smiled, "there you are."
Kit was taken aback; Robyn seemed to be completely normal again. Despite his concern he smiled and walked over to stand next to Robyn. Discretely he looked over at Sportacus and could see he was as surprised as he was. Something was definitely amiss.