It didn’t take long for the door to be answered and for Balthazar to be allowed in.<br/><br/>“Didn’t think I’d be coming back now did you?” The faun laughed at the shocked expressions on the guardians’ faces. As it turned out, the princess, or Kate as she was called here, had gone to school. This gave Balthazar plenty of time to catch up on the past seventeen years. He learned everything he could, and gave the guardians the rundown on what had been happening back home.<br/><br/>“It was only a matter of time before things got to this point.” Balthazar muttered, stirring the cup of tea he had been given. Checking the clock for at least the tenth time in the past hour alone, the faun sighed.<br/><br/>“What time did you say she would be back again?” The sooner he got the princess back home the better. For all he knew things could have taken a turn for the worst and there would be no home to return to in the time it took to get back. He also knew it was going to be quite the shock for the princess when her entire world she had been raised in turned out to not in fact be her real home, her real parents, or even her real name.<br/><br/>“Damn, I already feel sorry for her.”