<span style="color: #BF0000">"It is no trouble princess, especially for an old friend....and yes...I-,"</span>He didn't get to finish the statement, much to his frustration, as soldiers had marched down from the Light Kingdom. The ever noble, valiant guards of the Light Kingdom that would probably never betray their King simply out of loyalty. Opposite of the guards of his own kingdom, the soldiers there obeyed his mother more out of fear than loyalty. He had beheaded his fair share of the palace guards for treason.<br/><br/>Xander semi leaned against Reaper as the soldiers busied themselves fussing over the princess as if a single scrape would be the end of the world. Gods forbid darling Aria get bruised. He wasn't surprised at the slight over protectiveness of her father, though, being that there were people like him out in the world.<br/><br/>It seemed to take a moment, but they finally realized that Aria wasn't the only person in the vicinity. At which moment they decided he had done something wrong and shouted about capturing him while moving towards him and the horses. As if he were running...and not simply standing there calmly with the beautiful beasts that had to have been twice as tall as the guards. Alexander simply sighed and obediently allowed his hands to be tied behind his back, even though the bindings were sure to chafe, and peered at the horses as one of the soldiers roughly took control of them.<br/><br/>Though it seemed they weren't going to get far like this, as Aria had gained that awfully determined expression she got when she was dead set on something. He vividly remembered this side of Aria, having been subjected to the exact same expression several times as they played their games in the forest. A slight chuckle escaped him as the guards reluctantly unbound his hands. As he shook them out and rubbed his wrists he shot a grin at Aria,<span style="color: #BF0000">"Still wielding that powerful glare of yours I see, Aria. Good to know it still works and on people other than twelve year old me."</span><br/><br/>Turning he took Reaper's reins from whichever guard had taken hold of them,<span style="color: #BF0000">"He doesn't much like strangers, I'm going the same place you are so I'm certain you wont mind me leading my own horses."</span>Then he followed along with the guards and Aria, gaze on the Light Kingdom as they grew closer. The inside was much different than his own kingdom and he found his light grey eyes lingering over the most mundane things.<br/><br/>Once inside the great hallway he glanced over at Aria, then at the King as he realized his daughter had entered and ran to catch her up in a hug. Once again he was invisible but for a moment before being turned upon with wrath.<span style="color: #BF0000">"<span style="font-style: italic">he</span>, as you so kindly put it, has a name. <span style="font-style: italic">He</span> just saved Princess Aria from the forest fire she would have died in otherwise....and <span style="font-style: italic">he</span> has come to beg entry to your kingdom in an utmost demure fashion."</span>After speaking he knelt slowly, rather gracefully, to one knee and dropped his head to look at the floor,<span style="color: #BF0000">"I have no where else to go, as I have left what I thought of as my home."</span>Alexander was such a convincing actor...