Dragon's Enchantment page 38

“I told ya’ Eva. That old story is just a tale to keep us out of the sea to ruin our fun. Come on. Let’s jump.”

            They took each others hand and held their noses with the other, jumped up, and splashed down deep into the water. They came up sputtering and splashing, laughing happily. They swam and swam, forgetting about everything.

           

            Meanwhile, Prince Adam and Princess Eva’s guides had finished their duties. Class was just letting out for luncheon. Adam and Eva’s guides were waiting by the door, watching with other guides for their charges to exit the room. Soon the room was emptied and they realized the two were missing.

            “Royals did any of you see Prince Adam and Princess Eva?” asked Edith as the royals headed down the hall.

             After several royals said they had not seen the pair Edith turned to Charity, “You take this floor, and I’ll check the next.”

They looked and looked, but neither Prince Adam nor Princess Eva could be found. As the guides were searching, they met Orfa the scribe on her way back from putting away some scrolls. Orfa saw that the guides looked frazzled.

“What is going on here?” asked the scribe.

“Oh Orfa, we can’t find Prince Adam or Princess Eva anywhere,” said Charity.

“We have looked on all the floors,” said Edith.

“Check one more time and meet me at the bottom of the stairs if you do or don’t find them,” said Orfa. “I’ll check the armory, kitchen, and the Celebration Hall. The east and west corridor rooms behind the stairs are locked at the moment, but I will check them as well.”

Orfa checked the Celebration Hall. It was empty. Then she went to the kitchen and spoke to the workers.

“No haven’t seen any royals in here.”

She checked the armory.

“We were just closing up for the day,” they said, “No royals since class time.”

Orfa went back to the foyer. She checked the hall at the left of the stairs. They were all locked. “I just remembered,” she said to no one, “There is a secret door at the end of the hall.”She went down and moved the curtain. The door was slightly ajar. Orfa rushed back down the hall to the heralds that stood near the stairs. She took her scroll and wrote something and handed it to one of the heralds.

 “Announce this,” she said.