Well...he was a thief. He came across my tower looking for a place to hide, and I knocked him out!

[She sounds rather chipper about that. Even if Eugene became her friend, she was still proud of that one.]

I hid the treasure he had stolen in my tower and told him he had to take me to see the floating lanterns before he could have it back. [The lost princess' crown. Her crown.] So he did. We left my tower while my mother was away and traveled to the castle town where they release the floating lanterns--every year, on my birthday.