Ask Burden Of A Crown

[Altair Din]

“He tried grabbin’ your ass,” Altair responded as he casually stepped on the man on the way out, “Ain’t his ass to grab,” He declared as they continued along. He had never seen Celeste drunk and the sight entertained him quite a bit. Altair couldn’t help but laugh at her antics, almost stumbling over a few times himself. His tail was the only thing that kept him steady as they started walking.

Altair had a dreamy look on his face as he thought about fighting in the arena on Rattatak, “Man, I’d have everyon’ chantin’ my name,” He said excitedly, “Maybe earn a favor,” Altair grinned at Celeste. The thought of something sweet sounded delicious and he imagined cakes and pies.

“Oh that’s…” He began as he saw the sign, moments before Celeste dragged him away. Normally he would have better judgment, but he was hammered as well. Altair followed her along to the vendor, forking over some credits to take a piece of the cake, “Damn this is so good,” He said as he scarfed down some more. For some reason this cake tasted absolutely exquisite, which isn’t what he expected down in the slums.

“Come onnnnn,” He slurred as he wrapped an arm around her waist and started walking down the street lined with stalls and vendors. The spice began to affect them almost at once. The stalls began to change shapes and colors came to life, circling and spinning all around them.

He spotted a wall and walked towards it, “That looks… so nice,” The wall to him looked like velvet. He walked over and started rubbing his face against it.

@LadyRen

 

[Celeste Stythani]

An immediate "Ahhhh...thanks! I hadn't even noticed, but thanks for saving me" followed with a mischievous smirk, before she cheekily added, "True, that's your privilege". She had neither seen nor felt anything, but it seemed like all her senses were decently dulled and so this wasn't even a surpise. Their whole walk was an adventure herself and while her sense of orientation was usually rather good, she now had no idea about their whereabouts, but she was hoping Altair still had a clue.

It was a pity though that she simply couldn't decipher that sign, but in the end, it didn't even matter, because the incredibly colorful, absolute sweet looking cakes convinced her without even having to know what the sign said. Before they even zigzaged their way over, Altair dwelled on some kind of conservation Celeste had already forgotten and so she didn't get the context of what he said next. "Oh I assume many people chant your name every now and then! If not in bed, even that stranger was impressed by you!" funnily enough, this was something she somehow remembered: The stranger that had wanted to bet money on Altair. Why? Well, now she couldn't remember as her slow thoughts were constantly drifting off.

With her eyes excitedly widened, she staggered over to the stand with Altair in tow and all she could actually focus on were the bright, colorfully sugar-glazed cakes. They somehow managed to pay, which was almost a miracle in their case and Celeste had immediately started to devour the delicious pastry."Oh...wow, yeah absolutely" she joyfully replied after experiencing something close to a food-gasm, but what she didn't know was that those were no normal cakes...

Just a few minutes later, she was somehow still managing to walk alongside Altair, but that was when the ground began to swirl and shake and while Altair started rubbing his face against the nearest wall, Celeste clung onto the Tiefling's waist like her life depended on it. "THE EARTHQUAKE!" she shouted in panic, her eyes wide as she fearfully glanced up at him, but that was when it suddenly stopped. The earth stood still again while a vibrant, colorful rainbow started dripping down from above while various twisted danced alongside Altair. "Lookatthat! You're sooo beautiful!". Her panic clinging quickly turned into an affectionate cuddling while she was still seemingly glued to his body. In fact, Celeste had never taken spice before, but once the initial panic was over, letting go felt great! "I wanna go swim somewhere..." she dreamily slurred, not even knowing where that thought came from, but all she could think of was a pleasantly warm, pink stream of bubbling water and she wanted to dive right in. But where would they find water?

@Sreeya

 

[Altair Din]

Altair coughed as she implied many people chanted his name in bed, “It..ain’t that many girls…” He muttered quietly, even though that was complete bullshit. He was too blitzed to debate any further, too distracted by the lovely wall.

“EARTHQUAKE WHERE?!” He began to panic as well, clinging back to Celeste as he looked around in terror. Fortunately most of the people passing by them were also drunk or drugged, so some of them panicked while others simply laughed. Altair grabbed the wall to stay upright, terrified of the earthquake that would swallow them into the ground.

He was distracted when Celeste complimented him, and he took a moment to stare at her, “Look at your haaaaair,” He remarked, petting her hair as if she were a puppy, “It’s so…glowy and goldeeeen,” Altair leaned in and buried his face in her hair, nuzzling against it, “You smell so niceeeee. Like a gardeeeeen of flowers. I can seeee the flowers…” And he proceeded to rattle off the different kinds of flowers, revealing a bit of his farmer side.

“Oh there’s a river basin, let’s goo!” Altair started walking again, singing to himself happily as he did so. They zig-zagged and stumbled almost the entire way, but he pointed out a canal with boats that led through a river around the city. He looked at Celeste, “I.. don’t have a good track record on boats,” He laughed to himself. He had almost gotten Vahl and Cairo drowned several times when he was tasked with manning the boat.

Altair walked over to a more discreet area and started stripping his clothes off, “I wanna feeeeeel the water,” He declared as he found a shallow end to jump right in.

@LadyRen

 

[Celeste Stythani]

Celeste was experiencing a whole rollercoaster of emotions without even knowing what the kriff was going on. Her drunk brain had already been wasted and so the effects of the spice didn't surpise her, regardless of how intense they were. While those swirls played around Altair's horns she reached up and tried to cath them, but in the end she couldn't touch anything apart from his massive horns. "Naughty squirrels...getting away" she mumbled, overly focused on her mission while even slurring the words so much that the swirls were now known as squirrels.

None of the people walking by cared much about the Tiefling and the blonde who tripped so hard, that there was seemingly no connection to their reality left. When he complimented her, she happily smirked, once again affectionately cuddling with him, while the shock of the earthquake was already forgotten."You're sooo sweeeet. Just like that talking caaaake". The way she remembered it now, that colorful piece of a cake had insulted her when she took a bite, but she wasn't regretting anything."I'll keep you!" she confidently stated, gripping his hand tightly while they staggered away, her eyes excitedly widened as she loved his river idea. She still giggled sweetly at his flower-enumaration continued, however he did mention quite a lot of flowers that she had never heard before. She kept imagining huge, colorful flowers on an even bigger meadows filled with countless different shapes and petals, but soon that meadow was flooded with the pink, bubbly stream she had imagined earlier! They had arrived!!

She hadn't even realized that she had joyfully hummed with him, but now that they had arrived, they had to get past that gigantic, yellow bird she was seeing. "Sorry Mister bird, but we would kindly ask you-" she politely began, but the bird had already vanished into thin air. "Oh! There's nothing standing in our way now, so let's gooo" she excitedly replied, letting go and starting to dart right forward and into the water. Without hesitation, she jumped right in, however not realizing that the water was way too shallow to do so, and so a sharp pain shot through both ankles. She tumbled forward and landed on her belly, gasping for her as she frantically squirmed. "It's...swallowing...me" she shouted in panic, but that was when she touched a rock that offered at least some kind of stability. "Okie all good! Get in here!!". She called over to Altair, whose skin magically glowed in the moonlight now.

"What the fuck are you idiots doing?!", another voice suddenly echoed through the canal, as a seemingly semi-drunk person was staring at them in confusion, one brow raised. Or was she just imagining that?! Regardless of whether she was imagining the voice, her clothes were completely soaked and if she hadn't been on drugs, she would have probably felt that pain radiating from her ankles.

@Sreeya

 

[Altair Din]

Altair was standing around without clothes on and he completely forgot why this was the case. He stared at himself, pondering why he stood there naked as the day he was born. He looked up when he heard Celeste screeching and his eyes widened.

“I’ll save you!” He jumped in valiantly to rescue Celeste from the 3 ft of water she was drowning in. Unfortunately, he belly flopped right into the water, groaning in pain. Doing so with no clothes on was even worse and he flailed around for a moment before he reoriented himself. The bandages on his injured arm were coming off and the injuries were at risk of opening up again. Altair was oblivious to this, grabbing Celeste.

“I’ve got you!” He said before he simply stood up in the water. Altair scrunched up his face in confusion, wondering why he felt as if he were drowning seconds prior. That was when he heard someone shouting at them.

“HEY!” Altair called back in the deepest voice he could muster, “Is that how you speak to your King?!” He shook his fist at the man that shouted at him. Of course, he was standing proud and tall in the shallow water fully on display.

The drunk man didn’t respond which greatly offended Altair. He glared at the figure and started wading towards him. Unfortunately this led him to deeper water and he abruptly lost his footing, faceplanting in the water all over again.

@LadyRen

 

[Celeste Stythani]

Since when was naked Altair so shiny?! She almost had to cover her eyes, but clinging to that rock prevented her from doing so. "SO SHINY!" she still thought out loud, probably making everyone else wonder about the context of that confused exclamation. She was still dreamily watching him, eyes narrowed to get a chance to focus on those shapes, but that was when he already landed right in the middle of the pink, bubbly stream as well. "Oh thank you!! I would have drowned" she gratefully told him, remembering that feeling of drowning she had experienced just a few moments ago. It was good that she was save now though! "You're an absolute heroooo".

Of course she didn't think about his injury at all...Neither did she realize that the river was comparatively cold and that she was actually shaking, but what she did notice was how fluffy the river was. After his valiant rescue mission, Celeste was finally save and so she dreamily squatted down and starting petting the water. Suddenly, however, the bird reappeared and now he was apparently angry while he stood there on the short, creepily watching each and every movement of the pair. "Shhh Altair, don't move. Maybe he'll leave..." she fearfully whispered, holding him even closer while he suddenly talked about kings. "Or maybe we should leave...I've got a feeling that there some lunatics around!!". As she now glanced up at him, her facial expression was fully serious. Did the two of them even had a place to go to now?!

@Sreeya

 

[Altair Din]

Altair was pretending to fight whoever had yelled at them. Really he was punching thin air and flexing his muscles when he felt he won, “Take that!” He said proudly as Celeste showed up. She had to have been impressed by that. He smiled proudly and posed with his chest puffed out. That was until someone started screaming. Probably that scary bird. It almost sounded like a squawk.

“DEMON! DEMON IN THE CANAL!”

“What?! Where?!” Altair panicked, looking around. He grabbed Celeste and started splashing through the water, running in the opposite direction, “We gotta run from the demon!” He shouted as he almost tripped a few times. By some miracle he finally found the edge of the canal and climbed up to plop down on the ground. This was a discreet location where no one was around, but unfortunately it was also away from where he left his clothing.

“Why did I take off my clothessss?” He groaned as he simply laid there on the ground staring up at the night sky. The cool air caused goosebumps along his skin and he had to find a way to get back to the palace without any clothes on. He stared up at Celeste, "Damnnn you look so good right now," He said in a daze, "Your clothes...huggin' you real tight..."

@LadyRen

 

[Celeste Stythani]

She absently watched Altair throwing some impressive punches against the colorful, crazy swirls that had just reappeared, now purposely ignoring the bird whose imagine was still visible in the corner of her eyes though. What a damn creepy! Good thing was that she had an extremely strong man at her side who was ready to fight whoever was going to bother them and so her panic, that was directed against the horror bird, slowly faded.

That thought occurred when someone was mentioned a damn demon though, and so her panic was immediately back. The colorful, pink, furry river turned into a dark purple stream that slowly turned darker and this could only mean one thing: The demon was close! Or maybe the bird was the demon or whatever, but Altair made the right call! "Shit!! Yes, run!" there was some loud, fast music playing in ber head and she suddenly felt like she was in an action holo-movie.

Altair was suddenly wearing a black suit that was an awesome fit and he had a blasted wrapped in his tail and while she hurried after him, the dark river splashed around them. After an eternity, it seemed like they finally reached the shore and Altair said something that didn't make any sense. "What do you mean? Your suit is fantastiiiic!" she glanced down at him, relieved because they had escaped the bird and the demon. They were truly unstoppable, but the sudden cold air that embraced her was a bit annoying.

His remark immediately distracted her from the cold and her smile widened even further. "Oh saaaame for you...but why don't we take them offff?" she cheekily suggested, her mind immediately flicking back to this very important topic that had just come up. They were surrounded by that sparkly, calm landscape and the huge tree behind Altair looked lovely, so that was the perfect time for a striptease. The music was still loudly playing in her head and now she started to take her clothes off, but while she was imagining to look incredibly sexy while she did so, it too, ages for her to escape the wet fabric that was hugging her way too tightly.

@Sreeya

 

[Altair Din]

“Take it off? Yeaaaahhh,” He agreed enthusiastically as he attempted to tug off his clothing. Of course, this was him just rubbing his arms and legs pretending to shed off his skin. Altair stopped what he was doing as he watched her undress, his jaw dropping at the sight. Celeste thought she was doing a sexy striptease, but really she was flailing her arms about and struggling to take her clothes off. At one point her head got caught in her shirt and she stumbled around like an idiot.

Altair saw none of this. He saw a temptress doing a seductive dance with her arms waving and hips swaying. The tiefling coiled the Force around her to tug her towards himself. His concentration was shit, and the attempt would just make her topple over awkwardly right on top of him.

“OWWWW!” He cried out as he managed to make her land so her knee drove into his nether regions. That managed to wake him up a bit as he reeled from the pain. Altair groaned a bit as he looked up, spotting Celeste atop him. He gave her a dazed smile, “Heyyy beautiful, how’d you get here?”

@LadyRen

 

[Celeste Stythani]

Celeste was rather relieved to see that Altair managed to get rid of his clothes on his own, because that way she could pit even more focus on her seductive striptease. When her shirt was above her head, everything went dark for quuteva few moments in which she was convinced she had just done a hyperspace jump, but once the fabric came off, she realized she was still in the jungle with Altair.

"Naked feels soooo much better anyway...why does everyone even wear clothes?! So unnecessary" she sighed, shaking her head. Why had no one considered that before? Her attention was briefly caught by the moon that brightly stood on the night sky, but it seemed like this very bright, oval ball began to wander right as she watched it. Was she in control of time now? She couldn't continue following that thought, because purple tendrils were suddenly coiled around her, and before she even noticed she was moving, she landed right on Altair, completely oblivious about the fact that she had just cracked some nuts.

"Hi, you!" she replied just as dazed, his mesmerizing face melting away in front of her eyes, so that she had to hold onto his horns in order not to let him melt away. "I don't know...but you're not going anywhere, baby" she lasciviously whispered while she was hypnotized by his neon purple eyes. Without even knowing how to kiss she pressed her face against his, their lips melting against one another while her head heavily spun. How had they gotten onto that carousel and was making out here a good idea? Well, there was not a single hint of logic left in her brain and so she didn't even know what she was doing here right next to the canal, her skin still fully dampened and her body actually shivering.

@Sreeya

 

[Altair Din]

Thankfully all the seduction allowed him to forget the pain from being kneed in the nuts. His body was rapidly filtering through the drugs and between that and the pain, he started to get some awareness. Some, not a lot, “I agreeeee,” He said, “My first order as King will be to ban clothes,” He said with a laugh as if his idea was the funniest in the world. He would be King - people needed to laugh at his jokes even if they were lame.

He felt her grab his horns and it allowed her to steer which way his head was going. Altair gave her a lazy smile, “I can’t go anywhere, I’m all yours,” He said right before she leaned in to kiss him. He also forgot how to kiss, so it was a ridiculous mix of mashing their lips or tongues together that felt like kissing. Externally it looked incredibly stupid.

Altair was barely aware of where they were, but he wanted more of the good feelings Celeste was bringing him. His hands traveled along her body, grabbing at different points as he heard the blur of the music in the distance. He continued moving around till he felt a nice, familiar warmth and good feelings throughout his entire body.

“Woooooo! Get it girl!” A voice called out as a drunk man stumbled upon the scene, spotting Celeste perched atop Altair. He clapped his hands and cheered, a few more drunkards walking over to see what was going on.

Altair groaned, “Damn it,” He said as he realized what was happening, “We gotta…head back,” He said, gingerly peeling her off himself and leaving him unsatisfied. Altair had no clothes, but he grabbed her jacket to tie the sleeves around his hips. She had the rest of her clothing left to put on.

“Come on come on, we gotta go!” He rushed her as he used himself to block her from view, "Damn it Celeste, that's a leaf, not your bra, come on!" Altair used the Force to make the first drunk man topple backwards. This set off a domino effect as he fell into the drunks behind him, all of them falling like bowling pins.

“You ready?!” Altair grabbed her hand and started to drag her away even if she was only half dressed. He couldn’t help but start to laugh as they bolted through side alleys to get away and out of sight. He could hear commotion behind them from people complaining about what happened and the mysterious ‘wind’ that knocked them over.

@LadyRen

 

[Celeste Stythani]

She couldn't help but to laugh...and laugh...and laugh...because yes, that idea was absolutely great! No clothes meant no stupid time wasted for getting dressed and undressed again and no stupid, annoying fabric that annoyed you where ever you went! Embracing that pure freedom felt great and especially seeing Altair's glowing skin, that was beautifully illuminated by the moon light was mesmerizing enough to be convinced. "Or only edible clothes..so you can just snack them away!" Potentially another great (?) idea she had that night.

While they passionately made out, she kept holding on to his horns, partly because it still gave her stability, but also partly because it felt like she had entered a wild ride and needed to hold on. While they half-licked each other's faces like idiots, Celeste heard a thousand melodies in her head in even though her eyes were closed, there were so many colors and shapes dancing around that is was hard to focus.

Still, whatever they did there felt great and she didn't even noticed a single thing about them having gained spectators. "What? Leave, why? We just had fun and I just tasted that-" Still unaware of their actual surroundings, he peeled her off like a bandaid and was suddenly in a rush which she didn't understand at all. "Are you afraid that bird might come back? I think we're just fineeee" she tried to soothe him, but he was still interested in a change of scenery. "Fiiine" she finally sighed, trying to look around to gather her clothes but she had no idea what they looked like and there were just way too many clothes scattered across the floor.

She grabbed something here and there, somehow managed to slip into her undies and her shirt too, but the rest she just dragged along. "Are we going back to the river? Or you know what?! Desert would be awesome!" she slurred, her eyes widened in excitement and joy while she let him drag her along. "Not so faaast! I cant fly like you!" she pouted after a while, obviously watching him float next to her while she had to walk. "Ohhh looook" With that, however, she suddenly stopped to pet a very friendly looking, fluffy creature, but only got a loud, angry "Hey what the hell?!" in return. "Ruuuude" she muttered, but started frolicking after him.

@Sreeya

 

[Altair Din]

By now, Altair was starting to sober up a bit. He felt pain through his injured arm and realized the state of his clothing - nothing except for a women’s jean jacket tied around his hips. He was dragging Celeste through an alley and paused for a moment to see if the coast was clear. Altair looked back at Celeste to find that he was holding the hand of some random drunk twi’lek in heavy makeup. His jaw dropped.

“What the fuck?” He said, exasperated, “Who the fuck are you??”

“I can be whoever you want me to be, baby,” She batted her lashes at him.

Altair looked highly disturbed before quickly releasing her hand and running back the way he came.

Meanwhile..

“Lady, I’m warnin’ you,” The 'fluffy creature' barked back at Celeste. He was completely caught off guard by the attractive, but completely kooky woman. He thought he was under attack and he took out a knife.

“Hey!” Altair snapped at him as he appeared on the scene, using the Force to send him flying back. The tiefling walked over to Celeste and scowled, “You’re suuuuch a pain in my ass, girl,” He said before he effortlessly grabbed her with his uninjured arm and tossed her over his shoulder. He had done this before, but she was annoyingly conscious this time. Hopefully she wouldn’t be too difficult on the journey back to the palace.

“I look like such a creep right now,” Altair grumbled to himself as he walked, “You coulda at least put your pants back on,” He continued to complain as he walked up sets of stairs while Celeste sang or babbled nonsense.

@LadyRen

 

[Celeste Stythani]

Highly focused, her hand reached out to carefully pet the funny fluff she had randomly encountered mid-air, neither wondering where this rare creature came from or why it was starting to speak a language she couldn't comprehend. "Look at youuu! You are absoluuuutely adorable!! Can I adopt you? Can I?" she excitedly asked in a squeaky voice, her heart melting as this thing was just utterly cute. Little did she knew that she had put her fingers into the wrong grumpy old man's face...

Luckily, the knight in shining armor or rather charcoal skin saved her before anything bad happened to the completely zooted and drunk blonde who didn't even know where she even was and why. "Oh, hi Altair! Look I've found- the air was suddenly pressed out of her lungs as he threw her over his shoulder, so that her naked ass was right in the air. She still had her clothes dangling from her left hand and wore nothing but her black panties and her top. "Are we going on another adventure?" she excitedly asked him, deliriously waving the fluffy thing that was now on the ground good-bye.

Of course she didn't perceive his little remark about her being a pain in the ass, but she wasn't sure whether she was ready to leave yet as it had been a fun night. "Where are we going?" she accepted being carried, as it felt absolutely funny, as if levitating on clothes that softly hovered through a colorful alley. "Are we going on another adventure?" She didn't even know she was repeating herself. "Oh...yeah I don't even know where we are going" she remarked, grinning happily.

After a while, she just starting singing a joyfully tune that had been stuck in her head for a while, but since she didn't even remembered the lyrics, she was merely just humming and throwing in random words while she drew shapes across Altair's back with her fingers. "Have you always had horns? Or did they just grow?" she suddenly wondered, extremely curiosity in her voice. "I think I had horns once! Maybe I am a Tiefling!". Obviously, nothing that came out of her mouth made any sense, but she understood his question. "I never had pants! I really think I never actually liked them...like dresses are just so much better. Airy, your legs can see one another and things are just easier! Yeah, you need to be careful of breezes when it's windy and sometimes of creeps who might try to catch a glimpse, but dresses are actually fully underrated in our current society I'd say". While her voice hand gotten somewhat clearer after the bath, her babbling was pure nonsense. "Do you like pants?". She tilted her head to the side. "I don't think so. You're not even wearing any!" she giggled as his butt cheeks were sometimes revealed as he walked, his parts barely covered by her jacket.

@Sreeya

 

[Altair Din]

Altair was getting more and more sober as he walked. First thing he noticed was the pain in his injured arm that was once again hanging uselessly. He had been extremely careless and this would slow down his recovery. Second, he was painfully aware of Celeste being completely out of it. Altair used the Force to jump up to the roof of a building to avoid detection. He walked across the tops of houses before jumping again.

“Always had horns,” Altair answered as he looked around to spot the direction to go. He felt her drawing shapes on his back, some of it tickling, “Trust me you were never a tiefling,” He snickered a bit before jumping again.

Realizing that she wouldn’t stop rambling anytime soon, he decided to try a trick. His tail came up and began to sway back and forth in front of her face like a pendulum, “Waaaatch the taaaail,” Altair said, hoping to keep her eyes on it till she calmed down and shut up. He needed quiet so he could focus and navigate them back.

After a few more jumps, he landed near the back entrance towards the palace. A few of his Imperials stopped him, recognizing him at once.

“Don’t ask,” He said simply as they waved him inside. Altair kept his arm around Celeste’s nether regions to shield her from view. After a bit of a walk, he led Celeste over to the residential quarters. Unfortunately there would be too many questions if she emerged from his own room. He gently set her down in an ornate bed. Altair stepped away to get her some water, urging her to drink before he pulled the blankets on her. He sat on the side of the bed as he tucked her in.

“Dream of cute fluffy things,” He said with a smile as he leaned in to kiss her gently before drawing away.

@LadyRen

 

[Celeste Stythani]

The words and non-related, confused sentences just kept coming out like there was no tomorrow. She truly kept babbling like a fully zooted idiot - which she literally was right now. Her first spice experience had definitely been an incredible adventure and the blonde didn't even anticipate that Altair was about to bring it to an end. She was oblivious to the jumps and leaps and that they landed on the rooftops of the stronghold and it was as if the word stream never ended.

She happily rambled and rambled woozy stuff in her utterly dazed state, not even realizing that he was trying to answer her questions. "...aaaand if I remember correctly, my uncle could fly. No one knew why or but I swear he did and this one time-" she stopped mid-sentence as something really intriguing caught her attention: "Oooooh!!!"It was something long and fast...and obviously, as competitive as Celeste was, her goal was to catch it!

With her tongue sticking out in full concentration mode, she reached down and tried to catch it, sometimes carefully froze up in order to lurk and plan her ambush on the helpless, mysterious creatures that was obviously taunting her. "I'll catch you..." she silently whispered like a soft promise as she waited for it to stop moving, but it never did! She was already getting frustrated, but that was when she suddenly found herself in a relatively comfortable bed.

"Huh?" she really wondered how she had gotten here and why Altair was brining her water, but now that her focus was broken, it was as if she had slightly found her way back into the reality-at least for a short period of time. Without question, she started gulping down the content of the glass before she relaxedly leaned back. "Thanksss. That's sweet of ya! Good night to you too good Sir!" Who knew what the next morning would bring and how much she would actually remembered, but it was absolutely saved to say that they had gotten the much wanted escape that night...

@Sreeya