The great escape... almost

'god damnit'

Now you may be wondering why the God damnit. Well I'll tell you.

You see when I was trying to convince the Firelord to let me go to the colonies. I may have or may not have agreed to a royal escort to accompany me. But you see for my 'plans' to work I needed to go to some places 'undercover'. And a freakin Fire nation royal escort is anything but inconspicuous.

So.... I needed to ditch them. Now you may be asking 'How are you going to ditch trained elites assigned to guard a prince' and to that I answer... I'm just gonna walk out and order them to not follow me and then leave forever...

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I know... sometimes my genius is scary. And if my first plan does not work out then I have a few back up plans that I can try. Now back to the God damnit.

So I have three bags and a good quality sword that I'm taking with me. Two of the bags' straps are forming an x on my torso and are sitting on me hips. While the third on is pretty much just a back pack. And their all filled with longer lasting rations and kinda random useful things. Like some rope or a knife and some blade care stuff, and a few gold pieces. Plus I also wrote a note to let people know of my intentions.

Okay... so let me think about where I'm at to make sure my plan works out perfectly. Coastal city. Fancy hotel like thing. First floor.(not ground floor the one above that) There are guards at every entrance and exit.

And now for the moment of truth, my great escape.

So walking out of the room is going pretty well. Now time for the stairs, okay so far so good. Now time for the main entrance.

"Your highness, where are you heading to?"

'shit... okay now all you gotta do is be authoritative and you'll be golden'

"That is not something you need to know."

He just looks dumbfounded and confused at my retort. Well that seems like a good sign for my plans. Alright now time to just walk out like a badass and leave them behind. But I only made it two more steps before I heard this.

"Your highness we can't allow you to go anywhere without an escort." 'fuck'

'okay so I have two ways I can go about this. one is that I can just flee and hopefully get away or I can try and order them to stay and not follow me. But the problem with that it that I never really ordered anybody before. I didn't even really order around any of the Servants at the palace before. So I'm not Sure how I'm gonna get them to follow my orders.'

I mentally clear my throat and prepare myself to say something as authoritative as possible.

"What I do is my business, and I'm certain I'll be safe here so I don't need an escort. As for where I'm going I was gonna go and see if any of the shops have anything good in them. Hence the bags."

I said while not looking at them... hopefully I looked pretty cool and princely.

Our protagonist couldn't see But behind him the guards looked like they didn't know what to do. On one hand they felt that their prince was kind of right, But on the other they had to protect the prince.

They were not gonna let him go out alone and unprotected like this.

"Your highness, you cannot go without an escort to accompany you."

'So I can either flee now or I can let them come with me and find a way to leave them behind. I doubt I can get away now that there's a few guards around me. So I essentially have to let them come with me then leave them.'

"... Fine, but hurry. I want to get this done before the sun goes down."

'And that comment was not too uncalled for As earlier they took over two hours making sure that the place I'm staying at was safe. And it looked like they weren't even doing anything. Just walked around doing a whole lotta nothing.'

"Yes your highness."

'god damnit... now how am I gonna get rid of them.... fuck.'