La Route de la tombe

Part 7

Chapter 7

Adrien was spending the night sleeping leaned to a tree vice versa to Kagami, that lied on the ground with her face positioned at the wheel of the carriage where Gabriel Agreste was over the night. The young Prince's horse lied on the bottom sleeping with Nathaniel lying on her flank with closed eyes. Nathaniel snored softly as he rested there on his pet, then from behind the horse, Lila walked by to look down at the redhead. She observed him sleeping peacefully, then got down to him nudging him slowly with her hands. 

"Nathaniel" Whispered Lila and Nathaniel turned his back to her. "Nathaniel?" Lila asked sweetly, then heard him mumble.

"I don't want to go to school mom," Nathaniel said while he sleeps making Lila chuckle.

"For real," Lila questioned herself at Nathaniel's sentence, then clapped him slowly on his soft cheek, then caressed it turning red from that. Nathaniel shut his eyes open, shrieking Lila and he yelled as he saw her close to him.

"Calm down!" Demanded the brunette and Nathaniel came down, then glared at the woman, that sat in front of him.

"Why were you touching me?" Asked Nathaniel. "You know that's sexual harassment"

"Calm down, I didn't want to harm you that way. I just wanted to show you around"

"Show me around?" The Prince asked raising his left eyebrow up. "It's night....in a forest, what do you want to show me? Trees?"

"I just want to show you the wonderful things of it"

"Okay....how long have you been living in the forest?" Asked Nathaniel and Lila got up, then pulled up Nathaniel.

"Take your horse and you will see it," Lila said earning a nod from the Prince that tickled the mare on her face to wake up.

"Hey Mona, let's go on a little ride," Nathaniel said getting up on the horse, then Lila jumped up on the horse's back placing her hands around Nathaniel's waist.

"So where do I have to go?" Questioned the young Prince the female outlaw, which moved her head to the side and pointed to the opposite direction, of where the carriage stood and they walked off passing by it making their way between the trees around them.

The young Prince guided his horse through the woods observing the place for anything Robin Hood - Lila Rossi had mentioned before they left their fireplace.

"Have you ever wondered how old the trees are?" Asked Lila looking from above his shoulder at his face.

"Not really"

"Do you want to know, how you can find out how old a tree is?" The brunette questioned earning a shoulder shrug from the redhead.

"Is that even possible?" The Prince asked turning his head around to look at Lila's olive green eyes.

"Of course" Responded Lila. "The easiest way to find it out would be counting the rings on the log of a felled tree. Everybody that went to school should know that"

"Never heard of that"

"What?" Asked Lila surprised. "How not?"

"I don't know" Nathaniel responded moving his shoulders up and down. "My private teacher never taught me that"

"Had he taught you anything related with the forests?"

"There are many bandits hiding around, people cut trees down to build houses, carriages, barns, utensils and what else more....uhm..."

"Did he tell you anything else besides that? Maybe about the leaves?"

"They fall in Autumn" Responded Nathaniel. "And they grow the other year back again."