Thread: Certain Doom, Interrupted (Methos and Autumn)

Androkles likely looked something of a site, splattered with minotaur blood, bruised, battered and his face darkened so as to better secret himself into the city. It was all rather unlike the stories where he would have swooped in on the back of a Pegasus gleaming with a golden white light, and slain any who lay in his path without getting so much as a speck of blood on his tunic. Nor had he really had much time for standing around to glory in his triumph as hed rather promptly informed the princess that they had to find a way out of here. The princess looked slightly startled that shed been rescued, evidently having resigned herself to her fate. Androkles dark eyes watched as Ambrosia clamber from the bed where shed been bound and come to her feet before it. Adrenaline pounding through his veins and the rather urgent need to escape this palace or not, he couldnt help but let his eyes stray along her form. With no more than a scant wisp of white silk clinging to every contour of her body, and jewelry along her limbs, his imagination didnt require much assistance in filling in the blanks. Though his loins stirred as some corner of his mind contemplated how he felt he should be properly rewarded for having risked his neck, he hadnt time for that at the moment. He allowed the princess her brief act of mutilating the bodies of the two minotaurs, although neither stirred to suggest they were anything but dead. The princess seemed to turn her attention from that back towards the need to escape, thus he found her tugging his hand as she recommended they depart through a secret door down the passage from which the minotaurs had been released. Given that he was slightly struck by the womans appearance, and she likely knew the palace far better than the rest of them having grown up in it he didnt argue with the woman but followed her as she lead them to the streets outside the palace. Androkles wasted no time as he held his sword in one hand and pulled upon the princess, urging her to move after him. Quickly and quietly hed move through the citys streets, slinking through the alleys as pandemonium reined over the city. The fired still raged in the harbour, although now the invaders were stirring themselves as some sort of attached seemed obvious from what had transpired so there was a rush to defend the city. They crept through the city until they reached its walls, clambered up its stairs and then by rope slid down the other side. Landing on the ground outside the city, no dawdling was allowed as Androkles would take the arm of the princess again and begin to dash towards the shore and the path down the cliff. Dark as it was circumstances required that he hurried and the men with him obliged his need for speed. Nor would he allow the princess to lag behind as he half dragged her with him. The plain to the city would be covered in short distance, and soon the winding path down the cliff was followed. Although they slowed down to cover that narrow goat track, and they spied Androkles ship waiting for them. A boat was resting upon the beach with men waiting to row them back to the ship. He waved his hand to his men and soon he stepped through shallow water still leading the rescued princess and scrambled into the boat before lifting her into it as well. His followers soon were likewise aboard. The board rowed back to the ship and soon rope ladders were tossed downwards and everyone could climb aboard as the smaller boat was pulled back onto the ship. A cheer went up from the Thessalians as they saw that their princess had returned with a woman who could only be the princess hed set out to rescue. He waved to them and stated rather plainly Lets get the hell out of here. As the ship set sail only then did he seem to relax somewhat. His eyes turning to the princess as hed smile and remark I have to apologize for my appearance and the rather humble comforts that my ship has to offer you Princess. He grinned slightly as he noted But perhaps I can crave your indulgence in that given the circumstances. He winked to her as he noted I had been sailing south to fight a war, making the acquaintance of someone whose beauty weve heard of even so far of as Thessaly was not something I had anticipated.