Sawyer was dragged out and then he followed Jamie without any complaints. Jamie ran here and there, seemingly searching for someone.
She turned back and looked at Sawyer questioningly.
Her short hair was bound with a bow hair tie. Sawyer wanted to hear what she was cooking in her mind.
"Where's she?"
"Who?"
She looked agitated. Sawyer shouldn't find this funny but he was really trying not to laugh.
"The girl who said she could get us a City Entry Order!"
He realized.
"I guess she didn't wake up yet."
Jamie calmed and her expression looked like a wilted plant.
"Let's go eat and in the meantime, you can tell me your plan. We can't just rush without you telling me how you are going to build me a kingdom!"
He walked back with her and ended up eating cucumbers. Crunchy!
"So, you see, now that the Inner City broke the connection with us, we can finally convert our place into a bustling, fulfilled place."
Sawyer took another piece, dipped it in spice, and ate.
"How? We have no money!"
"But I have seeds!"
He coughed. The spice irritated him. Yes, not her words.
"Seeds?"
Jamie looked at the floor. Sawyer could understand her torment. He wouldn't want to give his things, even if it was for the betterment of everyone. There's something that doesn't want him to share what he hoarded. But here she was, saying she had seeds. Did she know how much chaos it would cause if her words got out?
"You are not going to tell anyone else about this. I'll handle the matter, okay? For all everyone knew, you are my secretary. I'm not doing this to pressure you but to keep you safe. You will look harmless this way."
Jamie nodded. Sawyer was sure she didn't care. She had the force power but sometimes all force and brains wouldn't be enough in a fight.
He didn't know that Jamie was already considering how to get out of this if things went wrong. She had her concerns too. So, they arrived at the same result even after taking different ways.
"What else do you need?"
"Actually, my plan needs to be advanced. I'll ask the members to start working."
Sawyer was quite calm.
Jamie realized something.
"Why were you all furious then?"
"It doesn't mean I can't be angry when things don't go my way even if I made backup plans for them when they don't go my way."
He had a point.
"But you are right. We should meet this city lord. If he is a friend, things will be easy."
They waited for the girl to wake up. She didn't appear for lunch too. Jamie was getting antsy seeing the delay.
"I'll go check on her now!"
This time, Sawyer agreed. He didn't go with her.
Jamie knocked on the door but there was no answer. This was not good. She found it was locked and there was no other way.
Jamie was going to scale the balcony. The treehouse was more like a hotel in a sense. And the balcony was just some branches entertwined that made an opening.
Her room wasn't a good starting place.
"Leo, open up!"
He opened the door and he looked like he ran miles in a desert. Whoa, if training was this way, she understood his reluctance.
"Whaa?"
Jamie ran to his window and jumped out. She didn't need much equipment, she could just hang on and scale it. One of her many talents from the apocalypse.
The window was open, good.
She jumped in and found Leo waving for her. She gestured for him to calm down. His yelling in a low voice wasn't going to cut it.
"Jamie, you can't enter others rooms!"
The girl was sleeping. Just sleeping like a zombie. Was the excitement because of the guild tournament the reason she was tired? It could be.
"Hey!"
The girl didn't stir.
Okay! What else could she do? Throw some water? No, cute girls should be treated cutely.
"Hey, sweet sweet girl, you have to get up!"
She whispered and mumbled and the girl muttered in her sleep. It was working.
She raised her volume slowly.
"Wake up, your dad is here!"
The girl shot up.
"Dad, I didn't play video games."
She didn't even open her eyes but Jamie smiled.
"Um, get up and clean up. We need to talk. I'll wait outside."
This time, she used the door.
"It's done, she will be out."
Sawyer nodded and he had made himself one more plate of cucumber salad.
The girl appeared outside.
"How could you enter my room?"
Sawyer answered her accusing tone.
"Miss, for your information, you didn't answer our calls for three hours. As the owner, I can check up on you. It's our rules."
She glared at him.
"What? Jamie checked up on you. And she is the best person I know."
Jamie rolled her eyes. It was true because most people he knew were crooks.
"I want to go home."
"Yes, we will take you back. Where is your home?"
She opened her mouth like she wanted to say but she stopped herself.
"That, I can call my bodyguards!"
Interesting.
"Call them then!"
She paled but reluctantly agreed.
"First, you eat this apple. Then we contact your people."
Jamie didn't want her to faint before her bodyguards and make her father think that they were bad hosts. She looked tired too.
The girl took out her pendant. It had a beautiful aquamarine stone and something like a button on it.
"This is a tracker. I deactivated it. If I activate it, my bodyguards will be here in a minute."
Sawyer nodded. Jamie was skeptical. If that were the case, wouldn't she be able to call them when she was being killed in the forest?
She pressed the button. Jamie imagined some kind of Shockwave. But nothing. The girl calmly ate the apple like she had no care in the world.
Jamie counted in her mind.
55
56
57
58
59
"Miss, you are here!"
A guy jumped in from the window!
Then another.
They were surrounded by ten guys, in suits. The bodyguards were here!