A stone prince

Time for another section of Dealing with Dragons.

Cimorene was walking and talking to herself about where Kazul's friend, Roxim's cave was. When she got to the iron gates, she found a large grey lump on the other side of the gate. She didn't see it until the lump move it's hand. The grey lump apologized for startling her. She noticed that the grey lump was person and that he was the same color as the surrounding rock. Everything about him was the same color including his clothes, hair, and face. Cimorene asked the grey person who he was and he told her that he was a Prince. Then the prince asked Cimorene if she could open the gate and let him through. Cimorene told him that if she let him out, that he wouldn't rescue her from the cave and the dragons. The price told her that he really doesn't rescue princesses because they have dragons. She looked him over and decided he looked trustworthy, so she told him to plug his ears and turn around while she recites the spell to open the gate. He turned around and plugs his ears, she recites the spell and soon the gate opens.

He asks Cimorene if he can go with her. She asks him why and the prince tells her that he is lost. She tells him that she will take him to a special place where he needs to wait and she will return for him later. Meanwhile, while they are walking, he begins to tell her about how he became a stone prince. He tells her about how a soothsayer came to his christening when he was a child and told him he would do a great service for a king. He went to special school to learn to be special and was doing very well.

That's all for now. It's really getting interesting, isn't it? Stay tuned for more later.