A girl stood alone on a cliff overlooking the vast ocean. She was dark but fair, her eyes glowed an interesting shade of emerald green in the light of the dying sun.

She was dressed like a man in a sailor's loose white shirt and tight green pants and long, shiny black boots. She was watching something come into the protected bay, something that she had expected and yet dreaded.

She knew that she should leave now but she was compelled to see, to see if they had been lying. To see if he was really back.

Her fiancé, a man without a heart or soul. A man who would sell his mother if it got him her kingdom. She could not let this happen, but people were either too afraid or unaware of the danger he presented. Many suspected, her included. She had never been able to prove anything, and she knew that she must work quickly if she was to save everything. She only hoped she wasn't too late. She could not let the viper tear her kingdom apart for his own amusement, and she couldn't tell her parents, for they would say she was over reacting. And he would kill them so that he could take over her kingdom all the sooner

"All she does is sit there on that cliff; I don't know how she got there. I don't know who she is, but she is interesting. I wish I knew how to get up there; I wish I could talk to her. She seems so wild, so free, I want to ask her what that's like", said a young man as he looked up at the high cliffs from the deck of his destroyer, "I f only I didn't have to visit the King and Queen, then I could meet her."

"Your majesty, why do you even want to, she is not a noble, and she is quite strange. There are plenty of other fish in that sea", said a tanned sailor to the young man, "She looks like a female sailor, and they are a wild bunch, not to be trusted. Crazy they are." "I'm not interested in that way, I just want to know who she is", he said his voice filled to the brim with exasperation, "Unlike you, I'm not interested in getting in her pants, I just want to know why she's standing up there like that."

He nodded, but still gazed up at the strange woman, with her fair skin and her dark hair as she watched another ship come in to port.

She didn't see his ship coming this day, but she would come back soon to see if his ship had come in, she turned abruptly and walked away thinking.