And just like always. It worked. She turned a few corners and soon found herself hiding the tray in the garden and rushing the the east side of the palace. It was a long journey for her and it left her panting a sweating, but Zala simply thought of it as her own adventure and she was having a lot of fun with such thoughts. She knelt on the grass, pushed the short trees to the side, and was greeted with a small hole in the wall just large enough to fit a grown dog through it. She glanced behind her one last time to make sure that she wasn’t being followed, then crawled out through the gap on her hands and knees. Zala carefully put the rock back in place once she was outside, sat on the floor to catch her breath, and ate some sweets. Once she was out of the palace, she could calm down a bit.
