AM/VW: The King & The White Petal

I: The Raid & Successful Rescue

As she sat down on the cold floor of the cell she was thrown into, Sarai could only think about ways she would be able to successfully escape from the imperial palace and get far away from the imperial capital safely. She looked up at the cell door when she heard someone knocking on it. She got up off the floor and walked over to the metal door. The kingdom's newly crowned king was standing on the other side of the door. "How long have you been here for?", he asked. "Only a day, if I'm being honest.", she replied. He opened the door with a set of keys he took from the soldier he knocked out and walked right in. "I'm getting you out of here alive.", he said to her and hoisted her over his shoulder with his right hand on her legs to keep her still while she kept her head up off his back. Dimitri then turned to the spiral staircase and ran right towards the staircase before he ran down the staircase towards the bottom of the tower, where one of his soldiers ran over and told him the empress was knocked out by his friend with a steel shield to the head. As he ran straight towards the imperial palace's front doors, his father Lambert and friend Glenn joined him. "Sheesh, Glenn! Did you really have to go that far?!", he asked the navy blue haired knight as they ran farther away from the imperial palace. "What choice did I have, Dimitri?! She likely would've tried to take you on all by herself if I hadn't done so!", he replied. Lambert turned to them both. "He's right, Dimitri.", he tells him. "We have some imperial soldiers on our trail!", Sarai's legitimate warning alerted them to the footsteps of imperial soldiers running towards them. They kept running away from the palace until they made it out of the imperial capital safely. From there, they found their horses exactly where they left them. Dimitri put Sarai down on the ground and helped her up on his horse before he got on his horse behind her. Lambert & Glenn mounted their own horses before they rode back to the kingdom. Once at the border separating the entire empire from the entire kingdom, she spots her own horse galloping towards them and gets off Dimitri's horse before running right over to her horse. "Midnight!", she said to her female black horse before she turns to them. "Where did you find her?", Sarai asked. "After you were seized upon being seen with the three imperial paladins you found dead, she right away galloped all the way to the front gates of Castle Blaiddyd, where one of my dark knights found and brought her to the castle stables.", Dimitri said to her and she mounted her horse before they made their way back to Castle Blaiddyd, where they brought their horses straight back to the castle stables and dismounted them before leading them into their pens and closing the pen doors. By then, his soldiers had returned from the empire with all of the innocent people they rescued. With their mission to raid the empire and rescue all of the innocent people from imperial territories completed, the kingdom had successfully made it clear to the empire they shouldn't mess with the kingdom or its allies by capturing innocent people. Once inside the castle, they led her to the parlor so they'd be able to properly meet. There, they sat down in the parlor chairs while one of the butlers went straight to the kitchen to go get them some tea for them to drink. "I'm sorry I really couldn't tell you my name on the way here.", Sarai said to them apologetically. "Don't worry about it.", Glenn replied kindly before the butler put a teapot, four teacups and four small glass plates on the table in front of them. "I wasn't able to say this before, but my name is Sarai.", she said.