Chapter 8 - Exploration (1/2)
Naturally, Rowan and Severus were rather quiet the first two days until they finally got the courage to begin exploring Prince Manor. On the third day, they carefully explored some of the outside grounds, before beginning their exploration of the Prince manor itself. On their fourth day at Prince Manor, Rowan and Severus made their way up to the attic. Hearing a chivalrous voice coming from inside, Rowan and Severus peeked inside to only see a pearly white head playing chess with his main body in knightly, gleaming armor. ”I said, left!” The ghostly head sternly chided a rook to move.
Severus gapes as Rowan further pushes the door open at seeing the main ghostly body firmly pointed to a chess piece on where to move as the wizarding chess piece moves on its own. ”Huh, wizarding chess,” Rowan muttered.
The handsome young ghost in the prime of his youth glances up to reveal a rather attractive face with perfectly shaped locks on his head. ”Oh, my visitors!” The ghostly head eagerly said. ”Where are my manners?!” The ghostly body quickly rises and gently grabs the ghostly head, before properly holding the head to its ghostly chest as the head faces forward. With a breathtaking smile that even made Rowan's heart twang just a bit, the ghostly man says, ”Hello, I'm Sir Knight Prince at your service,” and bowed.
Severus gapes in awe and shock, ”You're a ghost!”
”That is correct, I am the only ghostly Prince still in residence, born in 1517 and died in 1537,” Sir Knight Prince nobly said.
Rowan eyes Sir Knight Prince with a grin. ”If you don't mind asking, what happened there?” Rowan pointed to her neck in a slicing motion.
Sir Knight Prince sighs out loud. ”Let us just say it was a youthful folly on my part due to my misspent youth in bad company.”
”What?” Severus sputtered.
Rowan chokes as she points rudely at Sir Knight Prince. ”You actually slept with someone's wife or daughter, didn't you?!” Rowan sniggered.
Sir Knight Prince gazes majestically out the window that perfectly shows his best side profile. ”Tis better to have loved than to never have loved at all,” Sir Knight Prince poetically said.
Severus blanches as Rowan's eyes glitter with delight. ”Please, do tell, who was she?” Rowan asked as she eagerly drew closer trying to get the gossip.
”No one of importance!” Sir Knight Prince sputtered.
”No, she must have been or else that wouldn't have happened,” Rowan snickered as she pointed to the wound on Sir Knight Prince's neck.
Sir Knight Prince seeing himself beseeched on all sides tactfully opts for an offering of riches to save his meek lowly ghostly life. ”Have the two of you found the Prince manor hidden passageways?” Sir Knight Prince willingly said.
Rowan's eyes glitter like Christmas lights as she says, ”Do tell us more, Sir Knight Prince?”
Wiping ghost sweat off his forehead, Sir Knight Prince says, ”Well, there's one in the study behind the bookcase. I can't show you given that Reginald is in the study, but if you just pull the third book on the fifth shelf and it will open up to a tunnel that connects to the old stables. Now it's just an old storage shed, but still, it does lead out of the manor,” Sir Knight Prince explained. ”And for the rest, I can lead you to them they are a little trickier to access.”