"An audience? With King Hagard?" Molly half repeated and half questioned in surprise from the tone of her voice as she looked at the two men. No-one dared to come to seek an audience with the king, he was known to be stand-offish and very quick to anger with almost any but the Lady Amalthea. 

	Molly wondered to herself just what could bring these men to the castle and then she glanced over towards the Lady Amalthea, figuring that if the very sight of the castle had not driven them off her Lady must have intrigued them enough to continue up the path for it was not an easy climb.

	"Molly, where am I?" The Lady Amalthea asked absentmindedly as she looked over towards the woman. Molly reached up and gently brushed Amaltheas hair behind her ear and gave her an understanding expression.

	"You are outside the castle M'Lady," she said in a kind voice. Molly looked back over to the men. "And we have company."

	The Lady Amalthea looked over her shoulder towards the men who had walked with her back to the castle, a gentle flash of her throat occurred as she turned more to face them.

	"Oh hello," she said softly in an airy voice as she bowed her head, as if she had never laid eyes on them before.