some were even told that the commander had bounded down out of the ship and had run over to scoop the princess clean off of her feet , some were told that the commander had feigned his own death to make the internationally-desired princess fonder of him during his absence , and still others were told that the princess had sent spies to reh to go and break the commander out of a crowded and hectic prison hed wrongly been thrown into and had gotten lost in among looters and rioters .