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BWI Airport | Portalocity Lounge | Saturday Morning

Madison was not pleased when she pushed open the door to the lounge with the Fandom High sign on the door. Like it wasn't bad enough that she had to deal with being dead, now Ron decided to send her to some lame summer camp so Kairos and Nakita couldn't find her.

She slumped in one of the chairs near the door. There was a black suitcase decorated with stickers sitting next to her and a dirty yellow and black backpack at her feet. Her eyes were glued to the door in search of any danger that might be incoming - in the form of dark reapers or new classmates.

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Prince, huh? Madison would have probably been more likely to call him a queen with the way he was dressed.

"Madison Avery," she replied. "And what country are you the prince of?"

Didn't he say it? He usually said it. Alexander rather liked to say it.

"Daventry," he said with a proud sort of smile. "It's quite a long ways away from here, I gather. From which land do you hail, Lady Avery."

Then there was a small, slightly horrified pause at what came out of his mouth, for which he quickly tried to recover. "Err, I mean, that is. May I call you Avery?"

Madison's eyebrows furrowed and she tried to remember if she had ever seen Daventry on a map. Not like she was a geography whiz.

"I've lived in Florida and Pennsylvania," she said. "And call me Madison."

"Madison," Alexander repeated it, as if testing it out, and he smiled, as if finding it good.

"Madison it is, then! And you can call me Alexander. I can't say I've ever heard of Florida and Pennsylvania. Are they very interesting lands?"

"I guess," Madison said. "I loved living in the Florida Keys. The beach is awesome. What's Daventry like?"

"Oh," Alexander instantly gained a warm, fond smile, "it's a small kingdom, but such a nice one. Very peaceful and beautiful, with great rivers and lakes, thick forests and meadows of cheerful wildflowers. I fear I will miss it greatly, but I am sure that Fandom Island will be equally pleasant, don't you think?"

"Oh, yeah, totally sure," Madison agreed, her tone tinged with sarcasm she was pretty sure the prince would miss. "Why else would you leave your peaceful and beautiful kingdom to come here?"

Not entirely, but Alexander was willing to put it aside. Especially since his own sarcastic, slightly sheepish smile was sneaking onto his face.

"Because my mother made me?" he offered.

Well, that got her to smirk. "What did you do to deserve that?"

My, what a lovely shade of red you were turning, Alexander!

"Um, well," he struggled to know how to answer that, "it's...complicated."

Madison's smirk turned into a full-out smile. "Sounds like it was something fun."

And that deeper shade wasn't so bad either. Alexander's eyes widened, hands waving in front of him. "No, no! Nothing like...nothing like that! I mean, it was...she thought it might be good for me if..."

He trailed off, realizing that continuing down that way would likely only lead to more embarrassment; it didn't help that Madison's grin made him think of Rosella, which meant that the next step was going to be merciless teasing.

"Okay, okay, I'll let you off the hook since we just met," Madison said, clearly amused by his blushing and stammering. "But you'll definitely have to tell me that story sometime."

Alexander's palms, meet Alexander's face. Alexander's face? His palms.

"It's really not a good one," he warned her. "You'll be sorely disappointed, I promise."

Madison shrugged. Even if it wasn't a good story, it was entertaining to watch Alexander. "Do you know anything about this Fandom Island? I never heard of it until my... dad's friend suggested it."

She had no idea what else to refer to Ron as that wouldn't sound insane.

"No," Alexander admitted and, while he was glad to move on to a different subject, the reason he was here was still fresh in his mind, and his expression took on a distinctly brooding quality. "I've never heard of it. But it wouldn't be the first time I've come across an island I'd never heard anything about before. At least this one I assume they'll be able to find."

"You've been to islands where people couldn't find you?" Madison asked.

Huh. Maybe his 'kingdom' was near the Bermuda Triangle or something.

"In a way," said Alexander, "but my concern is more about a land that I myself can't find. You haven't happen to have ever heard of the Land of the Green Isles, have you?"

It never hurt to ask, right?

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