"Is this the way Maximilian?"
"Way this is," Maximilian whispered back, "Sure I am."
"Kyle's room is this way?"
"Yes."
Caspian crept forward. They soon left the bleak corridor and came to a wider one. This one had red tapestries hanging from the black walls. At the end it opened into a wide hall, but silence reigned. No one was there.
"All the better for us," Caspian thought. Maximilian motioned to a door and held up his finger for quiet.
"Listen Caspian must," he hissed. Caspian softly put his ear to the door.
"-things ready?"
"Yes my captain, the feast preparations are ready, but my captain, the men are uneasy. They do not think the plan is good."
"Good? Hah. It's foul proof."
"Mardina really will marry you?"
"Yes. The girl is foolish. She fell for me as soon as I showed my supposed interest in her."
"Hmm, and then after you marry her the throne will be yours?"
"Yes, tonight I will ask Mardina to marry me. If she doesn't say yes then we'll have to... encourage her a little. Then at the wedding feast Gelon will have an unfortunate accident with the food. We will say he choked, but my agents actually will have slipped some of the most deadly venom known to man in his food."
"No," Caspian whispered.
"Isn't the medallion enough?"
"The medallion says I have rule, but it doesn't say how I have rule. This way there willbe a reason to convince King John and the people."
"Very good sir, I must leave to make final preparations."
The door creaked open, but Maximilian had already vanished behind a suit of armor, and Caspian underneath a tapestry. A man with a large beard exited the chamber and walked down to the big hall. When he had vanished, Maximilian and Caspian crept out of their hiding places. Caspian strode back towards the hall.
"Going where?" Maximilian hissed. "In room Kyle is, hall he is not."
"My family is in danger Maximilian. I can't stand by and watch them die."
"Do what to stop Kyle?"
"I'm going to kidnap Mardina."
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