"Hmm..." Everyone heard before they saw where it came from. A moment later the biggest centaur they'd seen so far appeared from the hall. "Who are those that I will be battling?" "Me." Kohl said, "and her." He pointed to Elizabeth who was convincingly not looking intimidated. Kohl was calm and cool as he generally was, and Elizabeth was standing tall and firm as she typically did. "Neither of you look like much to be battling. I hope I do not have to go against you," he said looking down towards Elizabeth. "I wouldn't want to damage that pretty face of yours." She rolled her eyes and he tightened his lips in disapproval. "What are your names?" "Does it really matter?" Kohl asked sitting down against the far wall, acting as if he didn't give two shits about anything. "Not really. I just do like to know the names of those I will be battling. To either for them hear their names for the last time be muttered from my lips, or two give congratulations for defeat. Though, I

"You girl, you'll go first." A random centaur said to Elizabeth. "You have ten minutes, the healer will escort you to the gate. Say goodbye to your friends. It'll be the last time you see them." He began to walk away laughing. "Here, drink as much of this as you can right now." Christian said hurrying up to her with a canteen of water moments after the guard walked away. "Drink it, hurry because we have to go." Elizabeth took the canteen and began to chug it. "I love you all." Elizabeth said after drinking most of the water, she handed the canteen and what water was left to Christian and began to go with him down the hall to the gate. "You're going to be fine okay? We have a plan. It will succeed and we're all going to get out of here." Christian seemed to be trying to reassure himself more than her. He gave her a hug before he had to leave. "I'm going to wait for Johnathan and Borislav in the main hall, they're supposed to be helping me do this." "Any tips when fighting th

"Okay, so we'll combine most of the bedding and tie them on there and drag. There's too many for carrying." Elizabeth decided, Kohl didn't argue with her and just did it. They irritatingly began dragging the loud, moaning group. The walk was annoying, frustrating and to such a degree both of them were silently considering leaving all of them behind. They were walking for hours and hours without conversation. It seemed as if the conversations were always in a constant state of interruption. For two people who had horrible tempers, they were able to stay calm. To their own surprise. "Are we gonna hit a river or lake soon? That won't make this worse?" Elizabeth asked looking to Ivanka. "I believe so. We'll walk by a siren's lake. So becareful, sirens and mermaids are nasty little things. Kohl, my dear, you must stay far from that river. You and I can stay with all them and she can fetch it. These are female sirens, she will be immune." "Alright." Kohl said grinding his t

"Okay, well now that you've sung all the popular Go's Go's songs, how about like White Snake?" Gabriel asked trying to push out an attitude, but was too weak to do it. "I only sang 'we got the beat.'" Elizabeth replied confused and he nodded. "Yeah. Their only popular song. White Snake, please." "Uh, yeah which song?" "Here I go again." Gabriel said and Elizabeth snickered. "What?" "Nothing. It's nothing." "No. What? It's a great song." "Yeah I know it is. I didn't say it wasn't. For whatever reason I expected you to say slow n' easy." Elizabeth replied with a big smile spread across her soft pink lips. "Seriously? Are you gonna let me go with the whole sex dreams thing? I was poisoned. That was poison. And it started to not be so great near the end okay? The first like thirty rounds was great and then it got to be...not so great. So if it helps I don't want to have sex with you any time soon. Don't know which Elizabeth I'll get." "No. We're not gonna let you l