The Princess flushed deeply at all the attention heaped upon her. She laughed nervously. Serena quite enjoyed it, but wasn't really able to fully bask in all of it; the fear of one of Berly's minion's creeping around the corner, seeing this scene, and then dragging her off to be drawn and quartered kind of killed the mood. Her disguise has helped her evade the patrols so far, but this scene was kind of blowing the ruse. She ushered Makoto and Raye up to their feet again.<br/><br/><strong>"Ah, please, please, get up. There's, um, really no need for this. Seriously. I don't want one of Beryl's monsters finding people kneeling before me."</strong>she said, flushing again. She was delighted, though, to have two more to her side. It was amazing that they were all in such close proximity. Perhaps their threads of fate were all connected and they'd been slowly drawn to each other over time.<br/><br/>Serena smiled,<strong>"With the four of us, we may stand a chance at defeating Beryl. First, though, I think we should perhaps aid some villagers..."</strong>she said, explaining to the others that she had heard of the priest that lived nearby, the only one to witness the bandit that had been terrorizing the local populace. The very bandit that had, ironically, drawn them all together.