Fallen
Kingdom
...Demi...
***
Just then
a hand grabbed my jacket and pulled me into the air. As I tried
not to scream, I was tugged all the way onto a thatch roof and
into a little hole made from hay. I felt beathing as my head
leaned skaking on the criminal's chest.
"Stop shaking, girl!,"she whispered,"damn
you'll bring this entire house down like that. Look, theyre
gone."
I turned my head and saw the guards talking about another murder
committed by Seth Castellan. Then I turned back to him
appauld,"Okay. One, why'd you attack me? Two, was that a
joke about my weight?"
He waved off my question and crawled out of the hay without a
word.
"Hey. Hey! Listen to me when I speak." I demmand.
He looks back and grins,"I dont take orders, loud mouth.
Come on." He jumped onto the next house.
I followed,"Well you should because I am a very important
person. And my name is Demi, for you're
information."
He scoffed,"More like for my amusement."
"Oh shut it, criminal. You're lucky the guards
didn't catch you."
He stopped and I bumped into him. He turns and gives a crooked
smile,"I think you're the lucky one, girl. Don't
know why but you apparently needed my help."
He turns and continues to jump from house to house.
I kept following,"Hey my dad's a bit of a freak about my
safety because of my importance. I hate it. Plus, I lost
something and was trying to look for it. I must have dropped it
somewhere around there."
"Oh well, I guess." he comes to a stop at a
trisection,"Where's your home, girl."
I point straight ahead at the enormous castle
ahead,"Mmmyeah, that would be it." The alarms had
started to go off and the castle flooded with guards looking for
me.
Seth slowly turn to me with a face of terror,"Oh gods,
please tell me you're a maid..."
I shake my head,"I'm actually the princess
and-"
"No. Nonono. You're Princess Demetria?!" He
interupted with a cracky nervous voice,"Well, now
this, this is just fantastic! I'm so
getting arrested now." He interupted, anger and fear in his
voice, "You are wild! Who lets the Princess go out in the
middle of the night?!"
"Why do you even care?!" I shout back.
"Because I don't want to get arrested for supposedly
murdering the bloody Princess of Yvetal! You know why? Because I
didn't murder the princess! I didnt muder anyone!" Seth
threw his arms in the air and brought them to his face.
"Then why were you arrested?" I
asked.
He looked at me with a pained and confused look," It
was...complicated. Especially to you.Now. Get home. I'm not
coming.."
As he began to walk away I caught his robes and pulled him
back," I cant go home at the moment as you can well enough
tell."
He looked at the castle and back to me," Well fine
then." He started to walk away again,"Go home tomorrow.
See ya, Princess."
"Wait!" I shouted, running to catch up to him,"
You aren't just going to ditch me here, are you?"
Seth shrugged,"i'm not ditching you considering,"
he quickly stopped and turn to me and I rammed into him
again," You keep following me."
"Am I bothering you?" I said as he started leaping from
rooftop to rooftop with ease. I followed slowly and
embarrassingly clumsy behind him,"Am I bothering you?"
I asked sarcastically.
"Yeeesss You aarree." he said in a mocking
tone. He came to a stop and looked out at the streets.
I watched his every move, waiting to see if he'll start
running again. He was extremely tall and athletically built.
He'd already grown a few thick hairrs on his chin and it
looked as if he hadn't cut his hair for 6 months,"How
old are you?"
He turned with a weird, i guess "you've-gone-mad",
face,"Why do you care?"
I shrugged,"Because you're really tall and
beefy."
He started jumped down from the roof and helped me down as well
then began walking at a pace I could keep up
with,"Hmm..well, I don't know why you're staring at
me but prison does that to people."
I felt my face burn,"Can you please just grow up and answer
the question? Gods."
He pondered for a moment,"How long have I been locked
up?"
"About 6 years"
He shrugged,"I dont know."
"You dont know your own age?"
He turned the corner into a hidden ally,"Well when you get
arrested at a young age and sentenced to life in the dungeons
plus a whipping every 6 days, age doesn't really
matter."
I thought for a moment and came to a conclusion,"Well
you're about 20."
He didnt look back until we reached this pile of hay at the back
of the ally,"And how did you come to that
conclusion?"
"Well I was 12 when I heard you were arrested and you are 2
years older than me so that meant you were 14 years old. Add an
addition 6 years and you are 20 years old since I'm 18. Plus
what really mattered in prison?" I explain confidently.
He smiled,"Impressive. And,"He stretched out and sat in
the hay,"what mattered to me was the 3 options I faced
everyday; 1) should I try to escape again. 2) Should I fight for
my food everyday until I rot in the dungeons. and..."
"And..?" I asked.
"Whether I should just kill myself and end it. I kept
choosing the first choice though. So that's good. I'm
out, for now."
I couldn't help but feel bad for Seth. But why? He was a
criminal. Why am I trusting him? "Oh..Well I think it's
good that you didn't kill yourself." I said as I sat on
the paved ground.
Seth stared at me with a confused but then waved it
off,"Well, I'm going to sleep. If your majesty of
inquiry wants, she can sleep in the hay. There might be enough
room but you shouldnt trust me."
I shrugged and walked over and layed down in the hay with my head
on Seth's lap. I looked up at him and he had his arms behind
his head and was watching the moon pass through what little we
could see of the sky. For some reason, I knew he wouldn't
hurt me.
***
