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Chapter 28. I You.
Stanley was shaking in fear, his eyes unable to leave the body of the rapidly cooling Lieutenant Drash. He sank to his knees as Amelia walked away from him and took up a place at Zelgadis's side.
Lina's eyes widened from her balcony hiding place. "I see," she said. "Zel only drew out the fight so long to buy enough time for the Lafas Seed on Amelia to wear off." She paused and thought for a moment. " That's awfully codependent when you think about it."
Zelgadis dropped his useless, broken sword, and shared a determined look with Amelia before the two turned their gazes back on the sniveling Stanley. The once p
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Chapter 27. Time and Tide.
Zelgadis glared across the long hall at Stanley, fists clenched. Stanley tried to look back coolly, but it was clear under his in-control expression that he was displeased.
"Ah," Stanley said loftily. "I see the prodigal son has"
"Your Lieutenant Hartwell already got in that line," Zelgadis spat, cutting off Stanley's lame villain speech, "that is, before I killed him."
Displeased went straight to enraged as Stanley's eyes narrowed and he drew out his sword. It was only Lieutenant Drash stepping in front of him that kept his Lord at bay. Zelgadis didn't give anything even close to a damn about this. His ey
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Chapter 26. Uncooperative Hostage.
"What?" Amelia said numbly, as if she'd just been slapped.
"I'm so sorry, Amelia," Stanley said, holding her hands close to him. "I " he turned his face away from hers with an anguished expression. "I wish I could've done something to stop it, but " His shoulders shook slightly.
"Well, he's a good actor, I'll give him that," Lina deadpanned from the balcony.
But Phil was practically radiating anger. "We have to do something about this, Miss Lina!" he insisted. "We can't just let him lie to her like that!"
"I told you: she's safe for now, which is more than I can say for the two of us if we jus
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Chapter 25. Rescuers.
Amelia was extremely worried at this point. She'd already come across several of the soldiers that seemed to be overrunning the palace, but she was still pretty much in the dark about what was going on. The soldiers were more inclined to draw their swords than to explain themselves, and after a good one-two of Visfrank they were even less inclined to explanation.
Her father's room was empty. She knew that that was no reason to panic. There were a lot of explanations for why that could be. He well, he'd probably heard the ruckus same as her and gone off to investigate. In fact, he was probably looking into her emp
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Chapter 24. Moving Targets.
"Forgive me, but I seem to have you at a disadvantage," the soldier said, sidestepping away from the flaming guard house. "I know you quite well. You're Princess Amelia's Mister Zelgadis Greywords, of whom she is very fond, but who sadly does not seem to feel the same way about her." He sneered. "But you don't know my name."
Zelgadis said nothing, but watched the circling man warily, sword in hand.
"I am Lieutenant Hartwell of his Grace the Duke of Daellon's armed forces," he said, holding up a finger. "But under the employ of someone you know better."
Zelgadis grit his teeth. He knew that Stanley was up to no
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Chapter 23. Siege.
Amelia's sleep had been fitful enough as it was without the addition of explosions. Her eyes flew open as an earsplitting ka-boom hit the night.
"Miss Lina," she murmured wearily.
She got up and pulled on her clothes as hastily as she could. She cursed herself for not getting worried when Lina and Gourry hadn't shown up for dinner. Something like that could only mean trouble. It was just that she'd been distracted by well
She hopped over to the door as she put her other shoe on. She eased the door open slowly so that only the mildest of squeaks issued from it. There was always a chance that the explosion had
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Chapter 22. By the Letter.
Lina stared straight ahead at the metal door as if cursing it with all her might. She'd already rubbed her knuckles raw banging on it and her throat ached from screaming. No one was around. They were stuck there.
Stuck in that dark, cramped space. She'd cast a lighting spell, but it only seemed to make the shadows deeper and make her more depressingly aware of how little room there was. It was all too hot and too close and she was getting acquainted with parts of Gourry she'd rather not name.
"This is so stupid!" she shouted, stamping her foot down childishly and accidentally stepping on Gourry's foot. "Why'd we
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Chapter 21. Wherever a Door Closes.
"Are you alright, Amelia?" Stanley asked, peering concernedly at her.
Amelia wiped her already rubbed raw cheek and kept her eyes off him as they walked along the same garden path they'd strolled through yesterday. "It's nothing," she said.
Stanley reached down to her and brushed her hair aside so as to better see her face. He withdrew his hand and looked at her gravely. "It's not nothing," he said. "You look like you've been crying all night. What happened?"
Amelia sniffed and looked away. She'd cried so much the night before that she'd just barely been able to stack up the bricks of her subconscious i
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Chapter 20. Maybe.
“So,” Stanley said, as they turned around and began another circuit around the short garden path, “what are you planning to do about him? I mean, obviously if Zelgadis finds his cure, you’d tell him how you feel because you’re not afraid to,” he added, as if he wasn’t a hundred percent confident about this, but wasn’t going to push the issue, “but what if he never finds his cure?”
Amelia sighed. “I suppose… I guess I’d just hope he’d accept it at some point.”
Stanley cupped his chin in his hand. “Could be. I don’t know
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Chapter 19. Nice Things.
“What happened?” Lina demanded, pacing through her room the next day.
“Don’t ask me,” Gourry said, perched on the bed. “I was with you the whole time.”
Lina scowled at him, as if to indicate that she hadn’t been asking him, just the world in general when she noticed where he was sitting. She added blush to her scowl and looked away. “Look could you just… get off my bed, okay?” she asked, fingers pressing against her forehead as if that could banish the memory of them dancing the night before.
Gourry looked around the bed in a mildly confused way. &