"What uh....what are you doing back in? Speech didn't go so well? Sounds like a war out there."
"That's because their is."
"Where are you taking, Elwin?"
"Don't worry about us. Just...remember what I said about staying out of trouble?"
"Yes?"
"Well now, just stay alive."
"Wait. Let me call, Natysh."
"We don't have time."
"But she can send in the….."
"Nobody controls them. They fight for no one, and against no one."
"What about my…."
"I got her."
"Kain, get over here right now, and stay in line."
"Sorry.
Here you go."
"Never step out again until I say. Got it."
"Got it."
"Here we are."
"But this is the Bathroom."
"Safest place in any event. Not only will it hide who goes in, but protect anyone from breaking."
*Shreaaaooowww*
"The shower?"
*Errwrink….errrwrink…..errrwrink.
*Wrink…wrink….."
"Why are you giving us a shower? I know they are loud, but the rain isn't going to block out the sounds outside."
"It's not a shower, Kain.
*Wrink*
*.....Baaa…...buummmmmmmm*
"Ummm. That fake wall passage doesn't look that big."
"Years of non use.
Help me push to get the mechanisms working."
*Heaaaaavvvv*
"Come one. Put your back into it."
"Elwin, wait. Why did you go in there? The Secret room is…."
"Hurry. Inside. Inside."
*BAM*
"Elwin?
Elwin?"
"Matches?"
"Matches."
"Let's light a flower, and….
*Poof*
That works too."
"We have light."
"Maybe the Servant screaming at us was right."
"This does not look like a used room at all."
"It's not. Tai made his own; and everyone forgot about this Passageway."
"Passageway?"
"How else do you think my parents got out? That hall right there takes you all the way around the Old Pond, and out towards the Meadow."
"How do you know about this place? Didn't your parents willingly leave?"
"Why would they willingly leave?
Just drop me off at Upfront; send me with a hired Hand to seek out the Hospitals.
Stay Leading, and then once I am cured; I come back. Kings and Queens did that all the time with some."
"So my dad kicked you out?"
"Your dad could never find us. He found me, before he found my parents. My Maids would pick me up from Upfront, and we'd go out on the town to celebrate. Once it was cleared we weren't followed; we would return home."
"So rumors weren't the only thing that kicked your Parents out?
Besides you, what even were the rumors?"
"Look, if you think I am going to spill my life and blood before you, just because we are in this situation; then you can forget it.
And you too, Kain."
"But I…."
"Woooo!!!!!
How long ago were these Murals painted? I haven't seen any at Upfront when I was down."
"Hand paintings.
Dragons and humans didn't always separate, you know.
Had to live somewhere."
"I know. Just...…they seem so happy in these pictures."
"Yeah.
They really do, Elwin.