The tired prince at a tired dinner
It's been almost a week since Ariella left and Michael's punishment at the Palace began. The men he's training are learning faster than normal because while he's not breaking them, he's pushing them harder than they'd normally be pushed. The Temple is clean to Denna's approval every day. The one part of the punishment he's kind of hated are the
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What little conversation passes between them is very hushed. "Are you...coming to bed tonight?" she asks before picking a bit more at her food.
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He nods slightly, "Father hasn't assigned anything tonight so yes. Still have to be up before the sun rises tomorrow though." That, won't ever change until he's done.
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Anna-Sophia groans softly, leaning into him slightly. "I never can go back to sleep once you get up." She would prefer him to just stay...
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Her foot starts to bounce as it always does when she's agitated about something.
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"My getting up early is bothering you, the best solution would be to remove me from the equation so that it won't bother you."
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She doesn't do well with boredom.
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Part of him is envious that she has the time to just sit around and be bored. He'd currently give his right arm for that ability.
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She pushes her hair out of her eyes and waits.
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"I'm not don't anything. You offered a complaint, I offered a solution." He moves the last couple pieces of meat around his plate, "Tell me exactly how that's wrong?"
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She folds her napkin in her lap, and folds her arms. "You're being sarcastic and a jerk. I just can't deal with that right now. I know you're tired, but you're pulling crap that Evan used to."
Low blow, there, darling.
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His face settles into stone at that comparison. "Well then let me remove myself from your presence so you don't have to deal with it," he murmurs with a flat tone.
He doesn't wait for anything else she might have to say before he tosses his own napkin on the table, stands, and starts striding from the room.
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She doesn't even have it in her to feel guilty right now about the look on Michael's face. She just sits there, haughtily, ignoring his words and waits for dessert. There's no use in fighting with him over it.
After her dessert, which she enjoys solely out of spite, she heads out. She can't be in the Palace right now. The darkness has settled well enough that she can slip, less seen than usual, about the grounds, though she still feels caged.
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Michael ends up in a dark corner of the library, curled in a chair trying to read a book. Trying being the key word because that argument keeps replaying in his head and he's read the same paragraph at least four times and still doesn't know exactly what it says.
It's out of frustration at himself and pride that it's a good hour before he ventures out of the library and heads to his room. Part of him is telling him that he should go apologize now and part of him says it will go better when he's had some sleep. No sleep since two nights ago won't make this any better.
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In fact, right now, she's working through her training. Step by step, she moves, eyes closed, imagining her mother's voice, before even that hurts too much. She sits in the dirt, knowing she should apologize, but she can't. Not right now.
Right now, all she can do is want her mother.
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It's Adie who, despite her father telling her to leave it, can't leave Anna-Sophia alone. Most of the Rahl children have a decent sense of tracking, even if it's the hunters that are the best. So while it was a little difficult for her to find her sister-to-be, she does in fact eventually find her.
Her steps are purposefully on the loud side so she'll be heard coming. "Anna-Sophia?"
It's not her mother, but it's someone who cares and is there.
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