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"Tha's good, tha's good. Well come sit, might as well let them finish. Started a little after you left." But the two were still at it, swinging, dodging, blocking, they were starting to sweat. "They both agreed no magic, the Retian man let Elliot borrow his sword."

Ipo looked at Lily sit down, pausing a moment to stare. "Even when you sit and do nothing you're beautiful. I thought it was merely my mind playing tricks since I know of no one who is naturally beautiful." he leaned forward. "But I spy powder on your face. I think the prince has remnants of some on his own." And laughed before a sword stuck to the ground beside him.

Elliot was panting, chest heaving under his clothes as a grin rossed his face. "You are excellent. Retian, your sword." and tossed it to the other before walking to Lily. The Prince paused, recognizing the stance and the grin faded somewhat. "Well break is over, Lily, you and I should go back into the carriage, we'll be riding all day." And offered one hand to Lily, Ipo practically hopping to his feet and opening the door to the carriage for them."

Elliot waited for the door to close as well, remaining silent until two knocks signaled they were moving, and they were. "You were doing so well." the prince finally murmured, looking away from the bentien. "I trust my knights, Lily. You can act however you please, Henry and Ipo will be watching him." Black ears lowered as silver eyes looked out the window, preferring motion sickness over the disappointment and sadness of Leo regressing. "I will not argue over it. It is your choice." and leaned his head against the carriage, eyes continuing to look out.

The lowered ears had to raise again to hear Lily, head tilting ever so slightly until he finally turned to look. He knew that look, she'd displayed it numerous times when they had first met, that terror, the fear of being sent back. "But you are not in Reta. We may be allies but the mentalities of our countries are so different one hardly wants to move to the other!" But the guard was a rare case, Elliot moving quickly to kneel beside Leo. "But I will not send you back, I refuse to, Lily!" She wasn't listening, he was slowly losing her. "Lily, Lily focus on me!" He exclaimed, catching her before she could fall forward. Instead he grabbed her chin and tilted it all the way back. It was hard to choke when your neck was fully extended. He'd seen terror like this once, a long time ago when he was little and cannons had been at his birthday. The Prime Minister had gone from carefree one moment to hyperventilating the next. Both his mother and father had to pull him off to the side. "Lily I'm right here, you have followed your training. Your training is to make your Master happy doing whatever you can and you have succeeded. Come now focus on me again, look at me." Wherever the Falian was in his mind, it must have been terribly dark.

Elliot gave a relieved smile hearing the sharp intake of breath, looking at the dilated pupils slowly constrict and focus, darting around until they landed on him. The small voice made him stroke the purple tinted hair, "Thank the gods." He murmured, kissing his forehead. "You are all right, you are safe." But the other soon clung to him and the prince moved his cape to wrap around the other, arms holding him tight. "You are safe, do not worry, You are forgiven. You are right here and I shall allow no one to hurt you."

Elliot stayed silent, holding the Falian close and listening to the sound of the wheels turning on the ground below. He was going to keep Leonard safe, he was going to keep him from ever going back to that awful kingdom, the awful place where bentiens were trained, abuse and kept like pets. But the weak voice caught his ears once again. "There is no need to be ashamed, Lily, there are no need for apologies." he stroked her face. "I do not mind."

"It is no problem at all." He returned the small kiss, stroking her hair once more. Elliot had no doubt that Leonard had broken rules, had gone against all of his training, the prince could not argue against it. it was all true. "But you have come so far from your training, please Lily-" but the boy's face became as placid and as emotionless as when they first met. Silver eyes turned away. "You are lying. You look like that, your first objective is to please your master." The man's jaw clenched. "And the word that crosses my mind when you try, is whore."