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“Wait! Where?” Lord Rockgonie asked.
“There!” She said simply as she lifted her hand and pointed at the individual her eyes were currently glued to.
“Leonard! he shouted, expecting his voice to be heard above the din of his surroundings.
“Stop! What are you doing?” she exclaimed.
“I’m trying to get his attention,” Lord Rockgonie responded. Didn’t you just say back at the house that it would be a miracle if Leonard suddenly appeared?”
“I think we should think carefully before we find ourselves rushing into a trap out of desperation,” Lady Rose replied.
“A trap?” Lord Rockgonie sounded surprised.
“Yes. What Lady Anna said back at your manor got me thinking. Leonard suddenly vanishes with no trace and no one, in spite of their most valiant efforts, could find him. Lord Walsrock’s consequent arrest doesn’t make him reveal himself and come forward to help his master. And now, we find him in the middle of the protesting crowd,” she said.
“And?” Lord Rockgonie asked with less confidence than before. The gears of his mind had obviously begun to grind.
“And it doesn’t look like he would come along passively. It most certainly looks to me like he is actively protesting alongside the rest of the crowd.”
There was a silence that settled on both of them once more as the insides of the carriage became still. They observed for several moments, the man who was supposed to be lost but had been miraculously found.
“It certainly looks like he is protesting. It also doesn’t seem like he came alone,” Lord Rockgonie concluded out loud after several moments of observation.
“What are we going to do?” she asked.
“We? No, you are going to continue on home and I will get down and approach him,” Lord Rockgonie responded.
What followed was an intense argument of how she had every right to approach him, just as he did, maybe even more.
If Leonard, who she’d come to like, was acting this way in spite of his master’s incarceration, then he was breaking her heart as much as he was breaking Kenneth’s.
The argument eventually ended with Lord Rockgonie winning this round.
Reluctantly, she agreed to the points he’d made and let it go.
Lord Rockgonie spied Leonard one more time as he prepared to get down from the carriage.
He nodded at her and stepped down from the carriage. He barked certain orders to the entourage over the noise, that she could only assume was what they had just talked about.
With one last look at her, coupled with a tip of the hat, he turned and began melting into the crowd on his way to Leonard.
