"OK, now what? We're in, so where's that pendant?" Sean asked, slightly angered that no-one had just come up and given him Laya's Pendant.
"We need to go through the actual castle. Come on." Laya said softly. Sean began to get angry.
"Well if you know where it is, you go and get it, Laya! I'm not wasting my time wandering through a castle!" the prince snapped, frightening Laya.
"I don't know exactly where it is, but I do know it's here." Laya saw the look on Sean's face. "Oh, OK then, I'll go and get it. Mieu, will you come with me?"
"Yes, certainly." Mieu replied. They headed into the castle, leaving Sean, Wren and Rhys standing outside.
"Well that's certainly a very good move for a gentleman..." Rhys muttered, but Sean overheard him.
"What are you talking about?" Sean snapped.
"You've let the two girls go off on their own and you don't even bother to help! You know something, Prince Sean, you really are a selfish brat. My first impressions of you were right all along." Rhys replied, anger flaring in his tone. He began to walk away from Sean and Wren.
"Damn you, Rhys! Fine, go off and freeze to death! I don't care!" Sean shouted back.
"See if I care when you catch pneumonia or hypothermia!" Rhys yelled.
"Both of you, behave! You're acting like complete idiots! Now, Rhys... it's not Prince Sean's fault that he's a bit arrogant and sometimes selfish. And Prince Sean... it's not Rhys' fault that he's a bit of an emphasiser on politeness." Wren said to try and calm both of them down. It worked. Rhys and Sean apologised to each other and shook hands.
Meanwhile, Mieu and Laya had been trudging through the Castle of Silence in the search of Laya's Pendant. They had been through every corridor and room in there, and they were on the verge of giving up, but Mieu spotted something in a bedroom they had looked in three times.
"Ah, look! This is it!" Mieu said triumphantly, snatching up a small silver pendant attached to a slim siver chain. Laya ran over and had a look at it.
"You're right, Mieu. This is my sister's pendant. Let's go and tell the boys." she said, and so Laya and Mieu headed back outside the castle to tell Sean, Wren and Rhys.
Several minutes later...
"So, that's Laya's Pendant. OK, what's Laya's message?" Sean asked. Laya opened the pendant and a voice rang out for all the party to hear.
"Sister, it is time I told you the truth. Despite the fact that Orakio and I had fought for many years, we finally realise that we have been deceived. Some deity of purest evil is using us to quench is thirst for pain and suffering. We will join forces to fight this evil, but you must also help."
"Hmm? How are we supposed to help Orakio and Laya defeat the evil?" Rhys asked. He was clearly puzzled.
"I think it might be Laya's Treasure. We have to gather the other two Layan Eyes and head back to the world beneath the Bernink Province. Maybe that'll help us defeat this evil." Sean suggested.
"Didn't it say in Lyle's letter that there was a Layan Eye on the moon Dahlia? I reckon that should be our next priority." Wren said to Sean in a suggestive tone. The prince then told everyone that that's what they were going to do - they were going to head to Dahlia and retrieve the Layan Eye. Mieu was about to suggest a trip to Aerone, the town of spaceship storage, but Laya had found a spaceship in the Castle of Silence.
"Come on, it'll be easier." she said, and so she lead Sean and the rest of the party to the spaceship. Wren piloted, Mieu navigated, and the party were at Dahlia in no time at all.
"Let's get that Layan Eye!" Sean ordered, and then he lead the party out of the spaceship and onto Dahlia's surface.