Kiara had looked everywhere. The library. His bedroom. Every hallway and room in between. She hadn't even really known why she had been looking. It wasn't as if she cared whether he ate or not. Perhaps she had actually been looking forward to making the trip into town together? No. Of course not. Not with him. Maybe if it had been... Kiara would not think of him. Neither of them. One she had sent away, and the other had obviously decided he had something better to do. She would be fine on her own.
The princess made her way back to her own room and started with disguising her looks. It had taken almost as long as getting ready for breakfast, but the end result had been much different. Now, instead of her normally tanned skin, Kiara emerged from her room with a caramel complexion. The curls that fell around her face were no longer a fiery scarlet, but a deep auburn that looked dark brown when she stepped out of the sunlight. Looking in the mirror had certainly been... interesting. It was almost as if she were a completely different person, but there was one thing that remained.
Just as she had the night she'd left home, Kiara reached a hand out to touch the eyes she saw reflected back at her in the mirror. They were still a light gray, but more so... they were still as lost and broken as the day she'd begun her journey. Yes, at least she still had her eyes.
She was wearing the same peasant's dress that she had been when she arrived at the Kingdom the day before as she made her way through the garden. Though the green around her tried its very best to calm the anger boiling inside her, it failed. In a very unladylike fashion, she let out a loud yell, kicking the leaves the gardner had been making into a pile. It was hard to say why she was so furious. Then again, Kiara had not known what had caused her outburst the night before either.
After several moment, her breathing returned to normal along with her emotions. And, unsurprisingly, Kiara immediately felt awful for the work she'd created for the man in front of her. "I'm so sorry. I'll help to clean this up, if you-" she had started to apologize, but then... she'd recognized the man underneath the common clothing.
"Lamont?"