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Several attempts proved abortive, and the scroll refused to open not even slightly.
"How did you get your hand on this?" He asked me.
"I know this is hard to believe but the prince gave it to me, " I replied while annoyingly staring at the scroll.
" And you just collected it?" He yelled.
"What if it's a test, or something worse, you don't just take things from a royal family especially things like this, if the king keeps it a secret and his son gives it to you, don't you think it's suspicious?" He had a point and even I felt the same way originally but there was nothing I could have done.
"What prince?" He asked.
"I heard that Prince Andrew is from this place, how is the Princess coping with that? " He asked relentlessly.
" As for the Prince," I answered,