Zxnader retook his post behind Queen Emmaline, as he did he saw princess Lucille get up and leave. Seeing this as yet an other abnormal behavior he motioned with his head for Ratimir to follow her. Whether this behavior was just a rebellious act from a young princess who didn't want to be here or something more, he had to know.
Ratimir nodded back and made his way slowly to the door the princess left through. On the other side he caught a glimpse of her rounding a corner with her hair down. He carefully approached the corner, as he slowly rounded it he saw her enter a room followed soon after by a knight who had his back to him. Ratimir quietly neared the room and posted a little ways away but close enough to hear what was going on. "What is this knight doing with the princess when she should still be with her family? And why did she leave? More importantly why is Zxander so concered and why send me and not Dalibor or Bogdan?" He thought as he listened to the knight ask if the princess had a problem with the new Queen.
As Zxander watched the room his mind drifted a little, he could picture his sister here. She would have loved it and not being a guard and braver then him, probably would have chatted up everyone including the two royal families. Granted she was friends with queen Emmaline, her mother and sisters. She probably also would have been bugging him and trying to set him up with every girl in the room, and jokingly some of the guys to. This made him reflect on his feeling for those around him, Wymond was the closest thing to a brother he has besides Dalibor. He isn't that close to most of his royal family except Emmaline, who was the first person he was assigned to protect when he first became a guard, and they soon became close friends. This is one of many things that was bothering him, if something was wrong why wouldn't she let him know. But more then that he had grown to like her more then just his friend and queen, but how could she or any other like him back. Which brings him to the princess why would she be so interested in him, he her new foreign toy or plaything, a way to entertain herself?