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Ihawxd rushed outside and hastily untied his horse. He spied the cloaked figure in the somewhat near distance and chased after her, yanking Alderaan along the way.

"Could I ask you some questions?" Ihawxd asked upon approaching her.

"I could easily have my father down here in a couple of minutes." was the grim answer he received.

"Really? That'd be great!" Ihawxd then remembered that he hadn't told anyone why he had come yet. "How'd you know that's what I wanted?" he added. The woman, evidently as confused as Ihawxd, turned around to see who she was talking to. Her hood covered much of her face, but Ihawxd could make out a puzzled look.

"Oh. You here for some sort of business with my dad or something?" she asked.

"Yeah, basically." Ihawxd replied.

"Well, I guess I can answer a few questions." The woman's voice had changed from a grave tone to a much livelier one.

"Well, I just recently was... Doing business with another king, but I couldn't talk to him until I went through this really intense interrogation process, so I was wondering what I would have to go through in order to talk to the king here."

"Don't worry, my father is far more trusting than Alemas ever was. I really don't know how he decides who's allowed to speak to him, but I think most people are. Then again... He never talks to me about business stuff, so I wouldn't know for sure."

Ihawxd didn't have any other questions at the moment, so both humans remained silent. Alderaan, however, wouldn't stop grunting. Eventually the Holden native broke the silence with a few more questions.

"So why were you buying weapons? Isn't it illegal for women to fight or something?"

"My father lets me and my sister do whatever we want so long as we can prove that what we did was the right thing to do. I easily convinced him that I'd probably get killed one day if I didn't learn to defend myself, so I get a little training here and there. I have a relative, third cousin twice removed r something, who believes that the only place a woman belongs is in the kitchen, though, so I try to do it when he's not around."

"I can't say I entirely disagree with him..." Ihawxd muttered.

"Don't forget I have a bag full of lethal weaponry here."

"Forget I said anything." Ihawxd looked around. The number of trees in the area had been steadily rising, and he now noticed that he was practically in a forest. The small amount of light that was provided by twilight was made even small by the shadows created by the trees. "I guess I should have asked this when I started following you, but where are we going?" he asked.

"Uh... The castle. Where do you think we'd be going?"

"I just wasn't expecting it to be in the woods."

"Well, it's not exactly in the woods, but it's surrounded by woods. You'll see what I mean."

It wasn't much longer until he did see what the princess had meant. The forest abruptly ended, and the pathway curved to the left. The path then forked, one part winding away into vast expanses of green pastures, the other leading quickly up to a bridge. This bridge crossed a which short river. On the other side of that rive, surrounded by forests on all sides but the front, was a stone castle, rather small compared to others. There were a few blue banners and pennants waving in the wind here and there, but other than that it didn't have much external decoration. The princess spoke.

"Well, there it is. I'll go tell my father that you're here to see him, I'm sure he'll let you stay the night." She began forward, but stopped, turned around and added, "Oh, and in case you were wondering, my name's Arya." Arya turned back around and left Ihawxd and Alderaan standing there, waiting for someone to escort them into the castle.