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Sebastian looked around. The air was clean and fresh, and the snow had just started melting, revealing small slivers of green amongst the white. The trees above them were bending over the path like they were trying to protect the people walking underneath them, and Jylan, as usual, was awestruck and staring at the canopy.
"I suppose you don't know where we are?" Sebastian asked, and Jylan murmured, "Somewhere…" Like he had before. Sebastian put his hands in his pocket and walked, trying to take interest in the brushes of green but failing. What was so interesting about plants? Nothing much.
And soon, within one hour, the trail had faded off into nothingness, and there was only a vast field of swaying grass before them.
They were lost.
Sebastian sighed, and Jylan guiltily stared at his feet. "I apologize, my prince…" Sebastian rolled his eyes but didn't say anything except "Where are we?" Jylan looked around, and he pointed to a small hut in the distance. "Maybe we can ask them where we are." Sebastian finished, and the butler nodded with a relieved smile. Then, upon looking at Sebastian's face, which was a thin, unamused line, he stopped smiling.
The hut, as they neared it, seemed to be falling apart. Multiple bricks were missing, roof tiles that had been replaced by patches of moss, and crumbling pavement that led up to it.
"Does everyone live like this, Butler?" Sebastian asked, and Jyan nodded. So then, it was yet his fault again. His fault that he had caused all this - and no doubt Sebastian had ruined countless lives. His hand paused on the doorknob - and now the prince saw that it was slightly trembling. Jylan knocked on the door. Almost instantly it was opened by a small girl in pigtails and a dress. She turned around and yelled, "MOM! SOMEONE'S HERE!"
An old, gray-haired woman leaned backward from the kitchen and looked at them. Then, "Who are you?"
"Ah, uh! We- we need somewhere to stay for the time being - about a week - and we'll do anything you want." Jylan said hurriedly, both of them still standing in the doorway. For a minute there was silence as Jylan, Sebastian, and the little girl stared at her. Then the woman said, "No thank you. Please leave."
Instantly the little girl grabbed one of Sebastian's legs and one of Jylan's, sat on the floor, and yelled, "MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!"
The woman frowned and went back into the kitchen, but in the next minute, they heard a voice call, "Fine, They can stay."
Jylan sighed, and Sebastian looked away. How could anyone be so kind to someone who had ruined their life? Would they still like him if he told them who he was? Probably not. At least Jylan had done his duties as a duke. What was he doing, meanwhile?
"You can sleep in the attic for now. I'll call you up in the morning." The woman said, pointing at a dusty ladder leading to what was the attic, Jylan nodded and patted the little girl's head. "Thank you." And then Sebastian followed Jylan to the loft.
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