Anywhere but there, she nodded in agreement as she slid from his lap and followed him through the warm midnight garden, edges of her fanciful gown rustling across the surface of grass and gravel, wings trailing behind her like the memories of a ghost.<br/><br/>The gardens were deep and elaborate, with twists and turns revealing many little bowers and benches, but if the two of them found these places so easily, so might others, and she did not wish to have her time interrupted - especially by one of the many people with loyalties to one house or the other.<br/><br/>It was exciting, the quick pace making her giggles breathless as she followed his lead, until a glance to one side revealed something that made her grab his wrist and draw him to a halt, before urging him to move in that direction with her. The gardeners had taken great pains over the last few years to cultivate, arrange, and trim the hedge maze that loomed with shadowy invitation - someplace where they could lose themselves together, and perhaps find the center to while away their hours, if they were lucky.