Let's dare to dream

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Rapunzel was waiting by the front porch waiting for something to happen. She wanted to give her time to the kid who was still inside even though the minutes seemed eternal and to put up with the urge to go back into the house eating her alive.

Eugene had accompanied Varian to find Quirin and they had not returned since. She would have preferred that Pascal had accompanied her to entertain herself with something rather than let him play with Max, but she could not hold back her friend's amusement.

It took about 30 minutes for the girl to stick her head out the door.

Rapunzel when she saw her was very happy for her and immediately approached her and offered her a hand which made the girl go back and re-enter the house but she accepted her gesture and took her hand.

leaving behind the inside of the house, she stared at the surroundings for a great deal of time. She even got to let go of Raps's hand and go down the stairs of the house to return to keep her eyes on the small village that was a few meters in front.

-It is beautiful right?-

This made the girl react, and she fixed her gaze on all those humble but beautiful little houses and how the sun was facing them.

The window panes and various things they sold were glowing and for the first time she drew a slight smile.

The girl nodded a little more confident and she hugged the princess by her arm.

Rapunzel smiled at her and invited her to sit next to her while they waited for the boys.

At that time she tried to get a word out of him but the girl only limited herself to making gestures to respond.

The color of her face was already returning little by little to normal, or at least that was what Raps saw in her because the first time he saw her she was completely pale.

A few minutes later the boys arrived with Quirin at a hurried pace, causing the girl to hide behind the princess.

-Your Majesty, what happened? I couldn't understand anything that Varian and the captain tried to explain to me, what's going on?
Everything is fine? it was a robbery?-

Quirin seemed quite surprised at what had happened. He didn't know exactly what, but seeing his son worried about him accompanied by Eugene made him worry too. At least they were all fine.

-Uh to be honest... I don't even know sir.-

Rapunzel said still with enough doubts in her head

-But I think I know what we can do at the moment.-

-Varian, I need you to accompany me with her to the castle-

-What? -

Varian responded instantly with a complaint and obvious disgust

-No! I want to stay with my dad and Eugene. I don't think I can ...-

-Varian please! I need you to come with us! Eugene and your father will see us at the castle too. but I want to know the versions of both first, the more we know the sooner we will know how to fix everything, don't you remember what you've always told us? Running away from problems won't solve them-

This silenced Varian. He lowered his gaze and then returned her to what could be seen of the girl behind Rapunzel's back.

-fine.-

He said without saying anything else and proceeded to walk towards the castle clenching his fists.

Rapunzel saw him walking away and let out a sigh

Eugene, can you stay with Quirin and see if there's anything else in the house that can help us figure out how the ... uh ... the unforeseen arrived?

of course, sunshine,

thanks Eugene, see you at the castle in an hour okay?

With this Rapunzel said goodbye with the girl hugging her arm and they moved into the forest towards the city.