Alliance

"She's been worrying about you ever since you left the House of Bull," Prince Sunrei dropped the bundle of firewood on the dying bonfire. 

Aries realized only then that he was sitting on a mattress. There was a makeshift roof over him and the princess. It looks like they had been in that temporary camp for a few days.

"What are you doing here?" Aries asked.

"We just saved your life, I guess," Prince Sunrei answered with a shrug of his shoulder. "You see, my sister developed this habit of stalking you. I don't want to tolerate her or something but thanks to her weirdness. Your life had been saved. Just tell her thanks and..."

The prince slumped on the ground as Pieffer dragged him down.

"Don't listen to him," she told Aries. "The important thing here is that you are safe and you are already awake."