Teleporting away, Sahara took herself and the other three to where she had eaten with the emperor when they had talked about the pills, the last time that they had come to Green Haven.

There was an obvious reason she had come here…And that was because she was hungry…And well, she wasn’t too sure where else to go!

They really hadn’t thought that she wouldn’t go straight to the Second Prince’s Estate, why had she brought them here!?

“Why didn’t you take us to the estate, my dear?” Matthew asked.

“Oh, you just said, ‘Let’s take our leave’, you didn’t say where to…I came here because I thought of where I’ve eaten before because I was hungry.” Sahara stated innocently.

And…Wouldn’t those two radishes be there at the estate?

Matthew sighed and Band One and Band Two found that sometimes the Princess didn’t think as they did, and seeing as she hadn’t thought as they did, made them wonder if she wasn’t as smart as they had originally thought.

“My dear, take us to our estate, we can plan more from there.” Matthew said.

Sahara felt like she was missing something, thinking and wondering why she didn’t go to the estate as well.

“Didn’t you say that they are looking for me? Wouldn’t it be stupid if they didn’t go to the estate?” She asked, thinking that was the reason.

Matthew frowned, as his beloved had a point…But it wasn’t like they could ‘disappear suddenly’ upon their arrival to search the estate. It hadn’t worried him earlier, and it still didn’t worry him now…It was just…The palace had eyes and ears everywhere…If they were to make plans, wouldn’t it be silly to do them here?

Seeing that where they were was initially only a royal area, Matthew still didn’t seem keen…But, it wasn’t like they could disappear once again from here as well, it just might be harder to get away, which would mean that they could be relying solely upon Sahara…That was what Matthew didn’t like…Not that it was because he didn’t trust her, it was more because he wanted for her to lean more on him to protect her. He wanted his Princess to let him use his own strength more and show her that he could be just as great as she was!

The continuous want to prove to her that he was worthy of her hasn’t disappeared, and perhaps never will…

With Sahara’s constant look, one that seemed to hold one of impatience, undoubtedly because she was hungry, Matthew felt wronged…He wanted to indulge her and let her eat and he wanted her to lean on him more, why does he feel like he should let her have her way all the time!

Sighing, Matthew gave in, as now wasn’t the time to bicker with her because they needed to understand their situation, so they knew what to do!

Band One wasn’t completely healed yet, they needed to plan out how they were going to accomplish what they wanted here, before they take their leave once again back to Purple Haven. Teleporting to and from places wasn’t free, perhaps staying here, where only royalty comes, was a better option after all…

“I want food, I’m hungry.” Was all Sahara said.

Matthew let out a chuckle and nodded to Band Two, then signaled for Sahara to take a seat at the table. To appease his lovely wife, it would be faster to get food from here, where it was possibly already cooked and ready to give to her, then that at the estate where he hadn’t been for a long time already.

…Now that he thought about it, his estate wasn’t shut down…Was it?

Remembering the two things that had been attached to his arms, Matthew sat down next to Sahara.

This place will do!

When Band Two returned with some food, that he mysteriously either cooked or stolen, Sahara’s eyes lit up and she got more comfortable, seemingly only having eyes for food at the moment.

As she ate, Matthew only ate a small amount, but discussed openly and quietly about his plans.

“Master, would it be possible that Sahara could teleport more than both of you back to Purple Haven? Staying here, when you are not with us, makes the Bands slightly worry for your safety.”

Matthew looked at Band Two and sighed, “You are to continue to stay here, the emperor should be your number one priority and I already have band’s coming to Purple Haven.”

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Band One coughed, but his throat was a lot better now, “Master, the bodyguard will be seen as missing, again, would it be possible for the Empress to blame this on the Princess as well?”

Having already brought this up once in the prison cell, now Band One wanted to remind his Master of the dangers that he thought of because of his freedom.

Frowning, Matthew thought for a moment, “The personal bodyguard shouldn’t be something to worry much about, but, since the Empress Dowager is claimed as missing through the hands of Sahara, the Empress will most likely add her bodyguard to this…Perhaps we should have used another criminal instead. Nonetheless, the deed is done. Instead, we are to look for a solution, to make sure we are ready for this potentially happening.”

“I have an idea.” Sahara said, putting something into her mouth.

Looking at the beautiful glutton, Matthew raised his eyebrows, “My dear, tell this Prince.”

“Put it all on me, I just won’t return.”

Her simple words rendered them speechless, nearly all of them at the same time said, “No!”

Sahara shrugged, “I’m not coming back often anyway, and I can go into disguise if I do. Tell the Emperor to banish me outside of the Haven for life and to never return as a consequence. The Empress and Empress Dowager won’t be able to take the little man and the sentence will still be kept. Oh, maybe I could bring the Empress Dowager back for good measure or something…”

Shaking his head in disagreement, Matthew hated the idea of Sahara getting punished over anything. If she were to take a punishment, it would give rise to the people that she was not a good Princess to him, and her reputation would be ruined!

He simply did not want her to be in this position, yet, the Empress Dowager had been practically kidnapped by her, so what was he to do!?

Having told the emperor already, out of anger, that the Empress Dowager had gone, Matthew felt like he had stumbled a bit.

He knew now that he probably should have tried to keep it a secret…But how would he have done that with the Empress making a fuss out of it…No, he had done the right thing, by being the one to tell the Emperor that Sahara had teleported the Empress Dowager to Purple Haven. At least then, the emperor wouldn’t have found out through other means…

Ha, my dear, this is trouble.

“I did wrong, I don’t regret it because she was nasty to me, but I probably should have asked first or something.” Sahara said, putting a hand on her tummy, seemingly acting as if she was full from eating.

Even though she knew that the Empress Dowager was royalty, she still didn’t feel like it was a huge deal. To her, she felt like even royalty should know that there are boundaries and that they shouldn’t cross them!

Why can’t a royal be punished? Why is it that I should become a criminal because I got angry over someone wanting to steal my child!? If they were in my place, what would have they done!? Would they have simply let it happen!? Ha, I doubt it!

Because Sahara had come from 21st century Earth, where royalty to her hadn’t been such a big deal, Sahara didn’t think anything about what Matthew was thinking, in the way of her reputation. Still, to this day, she thought ‘reputation’ was something that didn’t explain a person’s personality. Sadly…That didn’t help her other half out at all!

Matthew sighed to her reasoning, asking first would have been better, yes, but not doing something like that at all would have been an even better solution…

Taking her hand in his, Matthew still wasn’t mad at her for taking away the Empress Dowager…But, it had put them into a very difficult situation!

“Master, this servant will go back into prison.”

“You will not!” Matthew stated straight to Band One. “We have already changed your position, we have to deal with the missing bodyguard and the Empress Dowager now. If we could make evidence that the bodyguard had instead run away or…Didn’t we have real evidence with the Empress personal bodyguard?”

Silence overwhelmed them all, as they tried to remember all the evidence that they had searched for and recorded.

“What we had obtained, Master, was evidence upon the Crowned Prince and those close around him. I don’t believe we had any kind of evidence for the personal bodyguard of the Empress.”

Feeling like she had done too much wrong, Sahara started to get a little depressed.

She knew that she wasn’t perfect, or all that smart, but she had previously felt that she had a right to teach the Empress Dowager a lesson…But now…She felt like it wasn’t worth having done what she had.

Probably, the best situation would be to just teleport her back to her ‘house’…

Upon thinking this, Sahara wondered if they had searched the old hags residence here yet…Because if they hadn’t…

Nah, the Empress Dowager would talk, so she would definitely say that she had been taken elsewhere instead…

Remembering villains in stories, suddenly Sahara felt like she had become one of those villains. They do what they want to do and normally get away with it. If something was in their way, they tried their best to get rid of it…

Was her goal making her into a villain then? Was it wrong to do what you want and get away with it?

Suddenly, she felt like her world was sliding from beneath her feet and Sahara felt like she needed to change a bit before she really did become a true villain!

She had already taken lives, having told herself that she would heal others to make up for that…She knew this world was a dog eat dog world, and the weak were walked on and killed…Yet, what gives her the right to kill!?

Feeling like things needed to change, because her own self needed it to live, Sahara felt like she might even be too late!

How could she forget about how strongly she felt for others…How she felt like she wasn’t someone with power to decide such fates! Not only that, how could she continue to live with herself, knowing that she was doing whatever she pleased!? In most of her past, she prided herself over being someone that didn’t steal and didn’t harm others because she wanted to work hard and see the benefits herself…She had mostly lived an innocent life of not wanting to hurt others because she would know how it would feel in return…How had she changed so much!?

Going back, she had taken lives through trying to save her daughter, but that hadn’t worked either! What if she hadn’t killed anyone, would her daughter had survived?

Thinking through her blurry past life, Sahara couldn’t help but think that she still did the right thing, because her daughter would have become more miserable and if she had survived, she perhaps would have killed herself or become a villain herself.

Then, what of the deaths in the Rolland Estate? Could I have prevented that? Did I have to kill all those people?

…Was there another way to have saved Talon back then, without killing anyone?