"Why are we going back?" Drifus said. "We just came back from Crochetown."
"I have an errand," Lenora said.
"But we will have to come back here to use the portal and that would-"
"Relax, we don't need to use the portal. We'll just take a ship."
They stood outside the portal room. Just like last time there was chaos inside.
"A SHIP!" Drifus nearly screamed.
Was he excited or just downright paranoid, Lenora couldn't tell. But she could tell that the mages were still preparing and running around wildly.
A maid stood by the entrance, the very same maid. "I was not expecting you to just leave."
"I suppose, you weren't."
"If you plan on playing hard to get, it won't work."
"I don't plan on doing that and how would you know?" Lenora said. "You're but a maid, yes?"
The maid stared but didn't quite say anything. As long as she was a maid, she was going to be treated like a maid, or so Alberto explained.
