Snippet #2616859

Lanie had glanced at the passing carriage. "I feel their presence in there." She pointed toward it. Before Lilly could stop her, Lanie ran toward the carriage catching up to it just before they were out of sight. She knocked on the walls of the carriage and it slowed down. The driver opened the door and hesitated, quickly bowing while still sitting in his seat. "O-oh! Your Highness! W-what brings you to Athen?" Lanie shifted her eyes toward the back. "I feel as if something is back there. May I take a look?"

The young man gulped at stuttered,"P-princess, I a-assure there is absolutely n-nothing back there! There is no need!" Lanie glared at the man with a cold aggressive stare. The man stepped out of the carriage in pure terror and went to the back, opening the doors. What Lanie saw was horrible. A poor girl a few years older than her, one of the hybrids, in a cage. Lanie yelled at the man,"What a devious man you are! How could you hold a living creature like her captive! And a peasant like you shouldn't sell any parts of a living creature! Get out of my sight!" The man shivered in fear and ran off.

She climbed in the back of the carriage and unlocked the cage with a key she found in the front seat. When it was open, she led the bird girl out onto the dirt road. Lanie smiled and curtsied. "Hello, I am Princess Lanie Ravenhart. You are safe, now what is your name fair maiden?" She hoped they would stop talking soon, because she could'nt put on the smiling act for much longer...