Game of Royals

37 Toilet Paper

I didn't know how long I had been walking one hour, two? I was just so thirsty. Along the way I saw no stream, and it was probably a good time for my survival lessons to kick in. I found a relatively sharp stick and began looking for vine trees. A certain time could store water in its vine like a cactus. I found several vine trees, though most were old and hard, finally when I hacked at one water came oozing out. I quickly press my lips against it. The water was cool and cold. I have no idea how much I drank. All I knew was that when the flow ceased my thirst had been quenched.

I could smell the sea. In my entire life I never had seen the sea up close. I was running like the wind brushing aside snagging vines and leaping above the tangle of roots. Spider webs constantly got into my face, but it didn't bother me. Before I knew it, I was looking at the sea. I stretched for miles and miles below the horizon. The sea seemed limitless in its expanse it looked as though it fused with the sky far out in the distance. This would have been the perfect paradise escape for a vacation... if it weren't for the fact we were actually stranded here. I began walking towards the beach. I could see something that resembled a human figure lying on the beach. With a cry of pure joy I sprinted to the figure. It couldn't be who I thought it was, could it?

"Silk!" I yelled throwing myself to my knees. Half her face was buried in sand. I grabbed her wrist to feel for a pulse, and for one moment I felt something, then nothing. She was alive! I rolled her onto her back and was going to perform CPR. I put both my hands over her lungs and then I pressed down hard, nothing. Well I guess that means I will have to perform artificial respiration, in other words it means "mouth to mouth". That moment I didn't really care who my first kiss goes to, then again I wouldn't really consider this as an actual kiss. I got into position and just before I started, Silk said:

"Go on, my prince." I froze at that voice.

"Only true love's kiss can break the witches curse..." she muttered with her eyes shut.

"No. You will be fine." I said as I got up again.

"If I knew this was coming, I should have played dead a little longer..."

"Holding your breath any longer you would have really died."

"What a shame."

"Value your life more please." She got up and dusted the sand from her dress.

"Is this a dream? Alone in paradise with Cherie!?"

"Quite the opposite in fact. And we are not the only ones in this place. Yumi and Charlotte are back at camp." I didn't bother to mention Stainless Steel, but before I could even finish my sentence Silk sighed a heavy sigh.

"Well it's going to get dark pretty soon, I say we should head back to the camp now." Out from the corner of my eye a light was blinking at me.

"Wait there is something I need to check out." I ran toward it and found an object, a box, half buried in the sand.

"Silk help me dig this thing out!" I called digging at the sand.

It took several minutes of digging, before we were finally able to pull the box free. It was huge metallic case large enough to fit a fully grown adult in it. There was a silver lock on the side.

"Silk could you do your thing?"

"Anything for my prince." Silk pulled a needle out from nowhere. I watched her pick the lock in less than five seconds. I knew how to pick a lock too, but compared to her I was a dog digging beside an excavator.

"All done, shall we take a look inside?" she asked.

"Go ahead." But I was cautious. Silk opened the case genteelly, and we inched forward to see its contests. Then we turned to face each other and saw surprise written on each other faces.