Hamish nervously counted the moments until the Queen came back with the book. He had to rely on all of his skills and training as a knight to remain calm throughout this sort of ordeal. That being said, he had soon been faced with a new threat.<br/><br/>Hoping that she would have come back here quickly, he drew his sword again and sneered at Kyle. Even though those people were technically aligned with the royal family, he was sworn to protect Alexis from all harm. It didn't matter from whom that harm had came at all.<br/><br/>Standing up, he glowered toward Kyle. "If you come one step closer you will all be killed." He still had plenty of time before the vampire venom in his bloodstream wore off, so he figured that he would have been able to make short work of them and thus survive the day here. Had he not had the augmentation of the venom, then he wasn't sure how well he would have done otherwise.