There are four ladies on four horses and they are all riding with so much determination to find something.
"Let's go!" Ephesus says without diverting his gaze from them and flung the ropes without even allowing his men to say anything.
"Umm... Your Majesty, Azariah is that way" Simon says, pointing ahead but he doesn't listen.
"Just follow his highness" Colonel says and they all flung their ropes too and left with him.
They follow the ladies on horses and soon stopped when Ephesus stopped.
"Who are you!" Ephesus yelled and Diane stops in her tracks and then turn to face him.
"I am no one you should know!" she replies and that makes their guess right. They are ladies.
"If I shouldn't know you then I should know Azariah. Where is it located?" Ephesus asks and Diane's breath cease.
She removed the hood from her head and eyes the Prince sarcastically.
"If you really want to know then you should turn back and go ahead" she replies.
They both stare at each other, scanning their faces maybe they'll see later in life.
"Isn't that where you are coming from?!" Miles asks and Esther answers.
"Do you care about where we are coming from or where you are headed to?"
Miles frown at this. He can't even identify who just said that.
When Esther saw that he don't know who spoke just a moment ago, she also removes her hoodie and stared at Miles.
"Can't identify, huh?"
"I can identify if I want to"
"Can't!"
"Can!"
"Can't!"
"Can!"
"Esther!" "Miles!"
Colonel and Simon yelled Miles in unison with Vilva and Maris who yelled Esther.
Ephesus stared at Diane and she does the same too. Diane stubbornly eyes him and he shot a brow up at her.
He have determined to keep his identity a secret, else he'd tell her a piece of his mind.
"We don't even know them" Maris whisper to Esther and she just stare at Miles with a stern face
"Really dude? Is it everywhere you make friends?" Colonel hushed and Miles didn't even give a damn attention to him.
"Please... We ask for the location of Azariah" Simon says and Vilva answered.
"It's ahead. We are out here from there because... "
"Because we wanted to take a midnight stroll" Diane say and Ephesus raised his head up slightly.
"We can lead you there" Diane says and Ephesus chuckle.
"No, thank you. We can locate it ourselves" he says and turn the ropes of his horse back.
"Thank you for your time" he says with a faint smile.
Diane smiles. It will be very hard for them to locate Azariah if they really need to.
The four men flung the ropes and they left for Azariah leaving the girls behind.
"Those men, are chunks" Maris say and they all laughed except Diane.
She started remembering what that Prophet said.
But she said three nights, Diane thought.
"Let's go back" Diane orders and they all flung the ropes and sped up to Azariah.
Non of them stared at Ephesus and his men and how the horses walked. Diane's horse ran past Ephesus and she didn't even turn. The hoodies over their heads so that nobody can see them.
"Should we follow them?" Miles asks, a type of intriguing spirit growing rapidly in him.
Ephesus didn't reply. He just flung his ropes and his horses didn't neigh so as not to catch the attention of the ladies in front of them.
"Oh well... This is another trip on its own" Colonel says and Miles follows immediately.
Colonel and Simon looked at each other and wondered what's going on in the minds of those two peeps.
The men follow Diane and her maids hoping to get to Azariah soon.
Diane and her maids raced to Azariah where the market is still alive and buzzy with a few people doing their work. Some selling, others buying some goods for their homes.
Just as Diane and the ladies entered Azariah, they followed through the crowds where they knew it'd be difficult for Ephesus and his men to locate them.
They ran all the way to the palace and returned their horse to their stable immediately. The ropes being let down when they left was what they used to get back into the Castle before anyone noticed them.
"Get to your chambers and have a good sleep. I have a feeling that these men are coming" Diane say and the three ladies looked at themselves.
Esther stared closely at Diane.
She sees through people and all she see now is interest in the men they saw a few minutes ago, growing in Diane.
"Where are there?" Ephesus asks himself quietly when he stops the horse and the men behind him follow suite.
"Perhaps they knew we were following them. That's why they they diverted" Simon say and they all looked around, confused and asking themselves questions.
Didn't the girls they saw and talked to enter here? Where else did they enter?
"Where can we go to now?" Simon ask and all eyes falls on Ephesus.
"We have to get to the Castle tomorrow morning. But for now, learn how to sleep on horses"
Colonel, the only person amongst them that acts so clean, frowned. He found it disgusting to sit on a horse, now Ephesus is talking about sleeping on it?
Simon and Miles notice this and hid their laughter beneath their palms and faced the other side.
It is a bit embarrassing.
Ephesus stared at the Castle from where his horse stood. His eyes caught sight of one of the lights of a room switch on and a lady's figure appeared.
She pace back and forth and sometimes stops and just stand on a spot. He can see her through the yellow curtains hung in the room.
He have a feeling is one of the ladies they just came across with
Can it be one of those ladies? he asks himself.
After a while, the light switches off and Ephesus turned to see his men already on the ground under a tree, using the bodies of their horses as pillows.
"Can't believe I brought you three"