The sound of that name, associated to him... it made his blood boil.
At least now that he was less scared, no one seemed to be able to tell him apart from his brother. Stupid, stupid Henry, he had to ruin everything for everyone. He had to fall in love like an idiot, because Kelsey knew all people who got crushes grew a lot dumber but that felt an entire whole new level. Fear left its place to anger and it took the man a lot of self control not to glare at the prince.
As if anyone wanted to spend their entire lives as someone else's shadow! That was not him, he was the silly city guard who danced in taverns and occasionally pretended to have duties just to take a horse from the stables and go for a wild run. And now it was... all out of his reach.
He got up in silence, finally bringing his full attention to the prince. At least he seemed as 'happy' as Kel was? THis wasn't his idea, huh? As much as he loved his freedom, he could only imagine how someone who perhaps didnn't want a guard around all the time could feel in this situation.
During the entire ceremony he did fumble once, not having the proper words to be formal enough to answer one of the king's inquires, but beside that... everything passed almost like he was lost in a daze. It... he kept expecting to wake up, to find out he was in the weirdest dream of his life, but no amount of cheek pinches or self inflicted snaps helped waking him up so far, he doubted they'd help now.
Before he knew it, he was following Prince Basil through one of the corridors. Where were they even going? He knew he wasn't supposed to talk unless he was spoken to first, it was one of the big rules his father insisted were vital if he wanted to stay alive, but truth was he wasn't prepared at all for what was to come.
They rushed to prepare him for the ceremony, but Kel had no proper 'high class' training. So... what now? He could only hope his farce would last long enough.]
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The sound of that name, associated to him... it made his blood boil.
At least now that he was less scared, no one seemed to be able to tell him apart from his brother. Stupid, stupid Henry, he had to ruin everything for everyone. He had to fall in love like an idiot, because Kelsey knew all people who got crushes grew a lot dumber but that felt an entire whole new level. Fear left its place to anger and it took the man a lot of self control not to glare at the prince.
As if anyone wanted to spend their entire lives as someone else's shadow! That was not him, he was the silly city guard who danced in taverns and occasionally pretended to have duties just to take a horse from the stables and go for a wild run. And now it was... all out of his reach.
He got up in silence, finally bringing his full attention to the prince. At least he seemed as 'happy' as Kel was? THis wasn't his idea, huh? As much as he loved his freedom, he could only imagine how someone who perhaps didnn't want a guard around all the time could feel in this situation.
During the entire ceremony he did fumble once, not having the proper words to be formal enough to answer one of the king's inquires, but beside that... everything passed almost like he was lost in a daze. It... he kept expecting to wake up, to find out he was in the weirdest dream of his life, but no amount of cheek pinches or self inflicted snaps helped waking him up so far, he doubted they'd help now.
Before he knew it, he was following Prince Basil through one of the corridors. Where were they even going? He knew he wasn't supposed to talk unless he was spoken to first, it was one of the big rules his father insisted were vital if he wanted to stay alive, but truth was he wasn't prepared at all for what was to come.
They rushed to prepare him for the ceremony, but Kel had no proper 'high class' training. So... what now? He could only hope his farce would last long enough.]