He hadn't even been playing his guitar in the theatre for a full hour before his phone began to ring almost simultaneously with loud knocks at the theatres door.
"What are the odds this is good news." he sarcastically muttered to himself, before putting down his instrument, jumping off of the stage, and then slowly making his way to the large golden doors.
As soon as he opened them up, Hanzel and Jaraette came rushing in with worried looks on their faces.
"He, i mean, s-she, she's not there, the bed, i don't know how, or when-"
Kaiyle would cut the babbling Hanzel off and yell at him to; "CALM DOWN!", before Jaraette would take over the explanation in a serious, and far calmer, tone - but with worry still evident on her face. "Your highness the princess has escaped."
Kaiyles expression remained rather flat. "You mean she's lost in the palace?"
"No sir, the window in her room is open, with a desk that has obviously been stepped on underneath it - she has fled outside the castle walls."
The Prince couldn't beleive his ears. This woman, who in his mind had been treated MORE than well in his palace, especially for a prisoner, chose to escape out a window & into an aftermath of a deadly storm?
"Damn her!" he snapped, before storming out past the two guards in front of him and angrily making his way down the stairs.
As he reached the first floor he ran into Emma - who looked shocked. "Is it true? Did she really-"
Kaiyle would cut her off before she could finish. "You! This is all your fault!" he yelled, as he stopped a few feet away from her. Jaraette would try to calm Kaiyle down by placing a hand on his shoulder and whispering; "take it easy", but he simply ignored her and continued his rant towards Ema. "I told you she should of been kept like the rest of these prisoners, but you said my methods were unfair and too harsh for a woman, well, LOOK WHAT HAS HAPPENED NOW! I wasn't too harsh, i was too soft!"
The Prince would storm off towards the other guards and give them directions as to where to search, before turning back to Jaraette and Hanzel - paying no mind to a visibly upset Ema walking off into the kitchen.
"The three of us will retrace her steps from the room."
It took about five minutes for the threesome to climb out of the same window they assumed Sakura had leaped from, and once outside they'd look around in all possible directions.
"Well it's not like she could of gotten far, we're nearly 3/4 of a mile up." Hanzel said as he fixed his disheveled appearance - received courtesy of his bad landing moments earlier.
"Hanzels right, we'll find her sir, don't worry." Jaraette chimed in with.
"Jara what have told you about calling me highness and sir. Now, it appears that hellish storm has actually given us a gift.."
"A gift?" the two guards almost asked in unison.
"Yes. A moist ground, and foot prints....look."
The guards would instantly look down and spot a trail of footprints that could of only belonged to the missing Princess. By the time they rose their heads again Kaiyle had begun to follow the prints on the ground, and so they quickly fell in line, until they all finally reached the back of the palace.
"Did she just disappear?" Hanzel asked, as the prints appeared to stop several yards back from the waters edge. But Kaiyle continued onward, after noticing that the prints didn't disappear.....they simply weren't AS visible on the different terrain.
"Did she...." Kaiyle muttered, before staring out into the water.
"You don't think she'd try to swim out to the falls do you?" Jaraette inquired, just as her and Hanzel appeared beside Kaiyle.
He'd shake his head "no", but continued to look out into the water anyways. He didn't think anyone was insane enough to actually attempt to flee the castle grounds by jumping down the falls, but the footprints don't lie......Sakura either vanished into thin air, or entered the water at its edge - where her footprints stopped.
The three spent nearly a minute looking out over the vast body of water, before Hanzel finally spoke up - somberly."I don't see her...."
"Maybe she, drowned." Jaraette added on, which earned her a surprisingly sharp stare from Kaiyle, who disagreed emphatically. "She didn't drown!"
As soon as the words left his mouth another guard several yards behind them yelled out: "There she is! By the falls!"
Kaiyles eyes quickly darted out towards the underwater gate system that protected people from falling with the current over the falls. Well Sakura appeared to have purposely climbed over it.
"She's insane." Jaraette muttered.
"She's going to die!" Kaiyle yelled, before - without a second thought - leaping into the water and beginning to swim towards her.
On a casual swim it would take him upwards of several minutes to reach the falls-gate, however as the rain began to fall heavier, he arrived to what appeared to him to be a struggling Sakura, in only three.
"Take my hand!" he'd shout to her, over the sound of the roaring rapids, but she didn't. So with a few more strokes - all while holding onto the gate with one of his legs - Kaiyle grabbed Sakura by the Hood and pulled her towards him.
"You foolish girl......" he said lowly - with far more concern, than anger, in his tone.
It would take him almost ten minutes to get back to dry land, with the extra weight of Sakura.
Once there though he'd scoop the princess up in his arms and begin to walk towards the back door.
All the guards would seem more concerned about him being wet, then her........which actually annoyed Kaiyle, and caused him to snap at them, before directing Hanzel and Jaraette to prepare a warming bed for the Princess.
"Yes sir!" they'd say in unison, before running ahead of him.
Kaiyle however would take his time down the hall - him and Sakura both dripping water all over the floor.
"Why would you do such a foolish thing......" he'd whisper in a tone barely audible. ".....risk killing yourself, just to flee here? To flee, me?"
Kaiyle would pause for a moment after his last sentence and look down at Sakuras face.
He genuinely felt bad for someone in this moment, for the woman he was carrying, and his face actually registered that sympathy - for once.
It was nearly six hours later, before Kaiyle would stroll into the castles 5th floor infirmary and sit at the end of Sakuras bed. He hadn't changed his clothes, but they were now dry - just slightly wrinkly.
He didn't know what to say to her, so he avoided eye contact with her - hoping she was asleep - and stared out the gigantic window above her head instead.
"I don't know why i'm feeling this way...concern, and sympathy? For this girl? Who just caused me hell for the last few hours.....i don't understand. My brother would think of me as quite the failure for that, wouldn't he." Kaiyle would think to himself, as he watched a flock of birds pass by the window.
"What are the odds this is good news." he sarcastically muttered to himself, before putting down his instrument, jumping off of the stage, and then slowly making his way to the large golden doors.
As soon as he opened them up, Hanzel and Jaraette came rushing in with worried looks on their faces.
"He, i mean, s-she, she's not there, the bed, i don't know how, or when-"
Kaiyle would cut the babbling Hanzel off and yell at him to; "CALM DOWN!", before Jaraette would take over the explanation in a serious, and far calmer, tone - but with worry still evident on her face. "Your highness the princess has escaped."
Kaiyles expression remained rather flat. "You mean she's lost in the palace?"
"No sir, the window in her room is open, with a desk that has obviously been stepped on underneath it - she has fled outside the castle walls."
The Prince couldn't beleive his ears. This woman, who in his mind had been treated MORE than well in his palace, especially for a prisoner, chose to escape out a window & into an aftermath of a deadly storm?
"Damn her!" he snapped, before storming out past the two guards in front of him and angrily making his way down the stairs.
As he reached the first floor he ran into Emma - who looked shocked. "Is it true? Did she really-"
Kaiyle would cut her off before she could finish. "You! This is all your fault!" he yelled, as he stopped a few feet away from her. Jaraette would try to calm Kaiyle down by placing a hand on his shoulder and whispering; "take it easy", but he simply ignored her and continued his rant towards Ema. "I told you she should of been kept like the rest of these prisoners, but you said my methods were unfair and too harsh for a woman, well, LOOK WHAT HAS HAPPENED NOW! I wasn't too harsh, i was too soft!"
The Prince would storm off towards the other guards and give them directions as to where to search, before turning back to Jaraette and Hanzel - paying no mind to a visibly upset Ema walking off into the kitchen.
"The three of us will retrace her steps from the room."
It took about five minutes for the threesome to climb out of the same window they assumed Sakura had leaped from, and once outside they'd look around in all possible directions.
"Well it's not like she could of gotten far, we're nearly 3/4 of a mile up." Hanzel said as he fixed his disheveled appearance - received courtesy of his bad landing moments earlier.
"Hanzels right, we'll find her sir, don't worry." Jaraette chimed in with.
"Jara what have told you about calling me highness and sir. Now, it appears that hellish storm has actually given us a gift.."
"A gift?" the two guards almost asked in unison.
"Yes. A moist ground, and foot prints....look."
The guards would instantly look down and spot a trail of footprints that could of only belonged to the missing Princess. By the time they rose their heads again Kaiyle had begun to follow the prints on the ground, and so they quickly fell in line, until they all finally reached the back of the palace.
"Did she just disappear?" Hanzel asked, as the prints appeared to stop several yards back from the waters edge. But Kaiyle continued onward, after noticing that the prints didn't disappear.....they simply weren't AS visible on the different terrain.
"Did she...." Kaiyle muttered, before staring out into the water.
"You don't think she'd try to swim out to the falls do you?" Jaraette inquired, just as her and Hanzel appeared beside Kaiyle.
He'd shake his head "no", but continued to look out into the water anyways. He didn't think anyone was insane enough to actually attempt to flee the castle grounds by jumping down the falls, but the footprints don't lie......Sakura either vanished into thin air, or entered the water at its edge - where her footprints stopped.
The three spent nearly a minute looking out over the vast body of water, before Hanzel finally spoke up - somberly."I don't see her...."
"Maybe she, drowned." Jaraette added on, which earned her a surprisingly sharp stare from Kaiyle, who disagreed emphatically. "She didn't drown!"
As soon as the words left his mouth another guard several yards behind them yelled out: "There she is! By the falls!"
Kaiyles eyes quickly darted out towards the underwater gate system that protected people from falling with the current over the falls. Well Sakura appeared to have purposely climbed over it.
"She's insane." Jaraette muttered.
"She's going to die!" Kaiyle yelled, before - without a second thought - leaping into the water and beginning to swim towards her.
On a casual swim it would take him upwards of several minutes to reach the falls-gate, however as the rain began to fall heavier, he arrived to what appeared to him to be a struggling Sakura, in only three.
"Take my hand!" he'd shout to her, over the sound of the roaring rapids, but she didn't. So with a few more strokes - all while holding onto the gate with one of his legs - Kaiyle grabbed Sakura by the Hood and pulled her towards him.
"You foolish girl......" he said lowly - with far more concern, than anger, in his tone.
It would take him almost ten minutes to get back to dry land, with the extra weight of Sakura.
Once there though he'd scoop the princess up in his arms and begin to walk towards the back door.
All the guards would seem more concerned about him being wet, then her........which actually annoyed Kaiyle, and caused him to snap at them, before directing Hanzel and Jaraette to prepare a warming bed for the Princess.
"Yes sir!" they'd say in unison, before running ahead of him.
Kaiyle however would take his time down the hall - him and Sakura both dripping water all over the floor.
"Why would you do such a foolish thing......" he'd whisper in a tone barely audible. ".....risk killing yourself, just to flee here? To flee, me?"
Kaiyle would pause for a moment after his last sentence and look down at Sakuras face.
He genuinely felt bad for someone in this moment, for the woman he was carrying, and his face actually registered that sympathy - for once.
It was nearly six hours later, before Kaiyle would stroll into the castles 5th floor infirmary and sit at the end of Sakuras bed. He hadn't changed his clothes, but they were now dry - just slightly wrinkly.
He didn't know what to say to her, so he avoided eye contact with her - hoping she was asleep - and stared out the gigantic window above her head instead.
"I don't know why i'm feeling this way...concern, and sympathy? For this girl? Who just caused me hell for the last few hours.....i don't understand. My brother would think of me as quite the failure for that, wouldn't he." Kaiyle would think to himself, as he watched a flock of birds pass by the window.