Winter (The Lunar Chronicles)

Tomatoes

Scarlet's POV

Scarlet and Wolf walked through the hallways towards the kitchen. Wolf was basically sprinting towards the kitchen.

"Wolf slow down!" Scarlet said, laughing.

Wolf however, only grinned at her and grabbed her hand and pulled her along with him, laughing. You would think they were in central park in London instead of the silver crème hallways of Levana's palace. They reached the kitchen doors and Wolf stop short and put a finger to his lips. "We're gonna have to be quiet now." He slowly opened the door. Nobody was in there. Wolf opened the door wider and walked in, holding the door open behind him for Scarlet. The palace was a combination of silver white and crème and the kitchen was no different. There was a bit of lemon yellow worked into the walls and appliances. They wandered around a bit, looking for the fridge. They found it, and opened it up, looking for tomatoes. They found them quite easily and pulled the bag out and began walking back. The door suddenly creaked open. Wolf, fast as, well, a wolf, pulled her down beside one of counters near the edge of a wall and put a finger to his lips. They sat there in silence, neither daring to take a breath as two people walked in. Scarlet suspected they were just cooks. As they got closer, she could hear their conversation.

"...Levanas had her taken up into the sky, Cooked as a goose, I must say. I heard that she is permanently asleep."

"Stars. One of those newfangled thingy-dingys they've been working on in the med-lab?"

"I suppose so. Poor girl. She always was such a pretty thing."

"Shh! Don't let Levana hear you say that or off with your head!"

The other cook laughed and went over to the storage room. The other one headed over to the fridge.

"Seren, Did you take the tomatoes out of here?"

"Run" Wolf whispered in her ear. Scarlet crawled over to the edge of the counter. The two cooks, which Scarlet could see clearly now, Were standing by the fridge debating where the tomatoes could be. Wolf passed her the tomatoes and she stuffed them underneath her sweater. She jumped up and ran to the door.

"Hey!" One of them called after her. "Get back here!" Wolf was instantly at her side, grabbing her hand and running through the kitchen doors. The cooks were catching up running after them screaming for guards. "Jump on my back!"

Scarlet jumped up and he ran faster, leaving the guards and the cooks behind. He came to a window at the end of the hallway. Outside the window, the city of Luna glistened out like a billion stars all streched across the night sky. and below that, the observatories. Before Scarlet could even figure out what was going on, Wolf had jumped straight out the window. Falling down towards the glittering domes of the observatories. Scarlet screamed. We're gonna die! This is freaking it. I'm sorry Cinder.. Suddenly they were just above the observatory and Wolf was crouching down preparing to land. He's freaking insane. Then suddenly they were standing on the observatory roof. Scarlet had clenched her eyes closed. "Did we land?"

"We landed." Wolf was laughing now, shaking. "You almost blew my eardrums off Scar'! Did you think you were gonna die?"