Chapter 6

The Senatorial Ball

"There's going to be a ball in a few days, your formal wear is being prepared." Corbin said.

"Fine." Tyan said. Tyan didn't even want to go, but he had to unfortunately, he was hoping he could get away long enough to ask Tana to be his date.

"I sent an invitation to Tana, last night." Hayden murmured to Tyan so Corbin couldn't hear.

"Thank you Hayden." Tyan murmured back a smile playing on his face.

As the night of the ball came, Tana grew more nervous, both Fal'lya and Corbin had threatened her to stay away. That night when Hayden came for her he was surprised to find she wasn't dressed.

"You should be dressed already." Hayden said.

"Feyla and Corbin, they threatened me." Tana said.

"Listen my dear, the prince cares very much about you and he wants you to be by his side tonight." Hayden said.

"Ok." Tana said as she picked up the dress and went in the bathroom to change, then came out a few minutes later. The dress was coal grey with a velvet v-neck bodice that was dark grey the sleeves were gray satin and tight fitted that belled out at her elbows. The skirts were also a dark coal grey velvet.

"You look wonderful." Tyan breathed when he saw Tana.

"Thank you, you look pretty wonderful yourself." Tana murmured, blushing

Everything was going wonderfully for about a hour and a half and Tana just began to feel nothing was going to happen when something did.

"I need to see your invitation and ID." A guard said.

"What, why?" Tana asked, in confusion.

"Confirmation that you are a guest." another guard said.

"I don't have a written invitation. I was verbally invited, why are you asking my ID." Tana asked as she took her ID from her dress pocket and showing them.

"We've been asked to remove you." a third guard, whom Tana recognized as the guard who had thrown her out of the building a week before, said taking hold of Tana's forearm firmly.

"What? Who- Fal'lya, I should have known he'd pull something like this." Tana growled, as Tyan and Hayden came towards her followed closely by Leia and Madine.

"What's going on, what are you doing?" Tyan demanded.

"We've been asked to remove this girl." the third guard said.

"I asked her to be my escort." Tyan said.

"Look, Fal'lya's made it perfectly clear that he doesn't want me here so I'll just save everyone the trouble and escort myself out!" Tana said loudly as she turned and fled.

Tana had no idea where she was running to, but she didn't care, all she wanted to do was get away from there as fast as she could, when she couldn't run anymore she found herself in the hanger bay, she walked to the back of the hanger and climbed atop one of the many metal cargo containers and sat with her knees drawn up to her chest, and let all the tears she held back come out.

Tyan watched as Tana ran from the large room he didn't miss the look of humiliation on her face and the hurt in her eyes, Hayden had told him about the threats from Corbin and Fal'lya and knew they were behind this.

"Fal'lya you disgust me the way you threaten and order people to get your way, and you Corbin, you disgust me, you've done nothing but show disrespect since the minute you met her." Tyan snarled as he left.

"Did you find her?" Madine asked.

"No, not yet." Han said. "She's gotta be here somewhere."

They'd been searching for nearly two hours for Tana with no luck.

Hayden walked quickly towards them.

"Have you seen the prince, we've been looking everywhere for him." Hayden said urgently.

Tyan walked down a hallway, he'd been just simply walking for the past two hours, he often walked when he was upset or angry. A faint noise caught his attention from the entry marked 'hanger'. Tyan cautiously crept in and carefully scanned the large hanger, a shimmering piece of fabric caught his eye, he walked towards it and found the sleeping form of Tana curled up on top of a cargo container, a small data pad lay by her side. Tyan picked the data pad up, it was a photograph of two people, 'this must be her mother and father, she resembles them so much.' he thought. He looked back at Tana's sleeping form. 'She's so little.' he thought 'I can't leave her out here like this.' he carefully put the small data pad back in her dress pocket and carefully picked Tana up. 'She's so light.' he thought as he walked out of the hanger, then stopped, realizing that he had no idea where her rooms were.