Choillane || Book 1

Chapter 3

Jasper looked at the blonde boy's eyes almost interlocking with him, as much as the prince's visual appearance is literally touched with gold, Jasper looks at him with fear and anxiety. They briefly answered "N-no, sir.. I do not know any one with the name you're looking for.." they said as they proceeded to look away from Arthur's eyes. Arthur looked at them with confusion and tilted his head, "A-are you sure you don't know Gisah Choillane-?" He said with hesitation. He felt embarrassed after following Jasper for the whole day only to find out that they don't know the woman he's looking for.

Jasper nodded then quickly took a big gulp of their drink in hopes that this awkward situation may pass. Although they don't know anyone with the last name Choillane, they do know someone who's named Gisah which is their mother. "Gisah Choillane..? It can't be mother.. it's just a coincidence, right?" They thought to themselves immediately before being disturbed again by the prince. "Are you genuinely sure that you haven't known anyone in your whole entire life that is by the name of Gisah Choillane??" Arthur asked again. Again, Jasper nodded in agreement that they are in fact sure.

Well of course, Arthur is in disbelief as to how he's gotten the person who's closest to the Choillane's wrong. He looked at them again whilst pointing with his finger, but before he could even start, Jasper interrupted "Yes, I am in fact sure that I do NOT KNOW ANYONE by the name of Gisah Choillane. Now please would you stop? I feel extreme fear by being in this place alone! By myself! Without anyone! So would you like to join me for a drink, you stubborn spoon!" They yelled which brought silence to the whole tavern and a surprised look on the prince's face. Jasper though felt embarrassed after yelling and causing silence to the whole tavern, they too silently covered themselves with the big jug of drink they were drinking. A surprised prince began to reply, "-Alright.. Four servings of ale please!" He yelled at the bartender and the human nodded signaling that he caught the order. Arthur pulled the wooden chair and faced it backwards, he sat down and looked at the embarrassed young adult. Soon the silence eventually faded away and noise filled the tavern.

The human served the prince his four ales and cleared away, "So.. since you already know who I am-" Arthur is again interrupted, "Nope, I have never met you in my entire life." says Jasper.

"Well of course you haven't met me! I am the prince of Camelot! Soon to be heir to the throne! You know, royalty? And you— uh clearly peasant judging by your clothes." Arthur replied in a snarky tone.

"Wow, yeah I don't know you at all. I didn't even know that Camelot exists." Jasper replied with a straight face indicating that they really don't know.

Arthur looked at them with a more surprised face, "Huh, well. Um, okay, then let me introduce myself. My name is Arthur Benjamin Pendragon, I am the prince of Camelot. Though technically I am Arthur the third, not the original Arthur that, well, saved Camelot, but you know, I will be the next king after my father, Arthur II." He said in a bragging tone. Jasper took another sip of his drink while Arthur is consuming his third, before saying anything, they sat up properly "...Greetings to you then, Arthur. My name is Jasper, that's pretty much it. No last name and all those fancy names-" they looked up at Arthur who's eyes looks confused, so they continued "I was born an orphan, never knew my parents at all, my mother, Madame Gisah rais—" This time Jasper is the one interrupted.

"So you're telling me that you don't know a Gisah Choillane, BUT you know a Madame Gisah? Care to explain?" Arthur said with a baffled look on his face.

"Uh well.. funny thing is. I'm not even sure that we're talking about the same Gisah that you know about. Since the Gisah I know is my mother who raised me as a child, but you didn't know that because you interrupted me." Jasper replied in annoyance. Arthur replied back in annoyance also, "Really? You interrupted me twice already! If we were back in my kingdom, I'd have you arrested for disrespecting the prince!"

"Wow, what an amazing king you are!" Jasper said sarcastically. Arthur quickly stood up out of spite, "will you shut up!" then proceeded to sit back down. He drank his fourth ale and proceeded to yell at the bartender "Four more ales!— actually make that ten!" Now both are filled with annoyance breaking the good mood that both of them were having before. As laughter and noise filled the whole tavern as always, these two couldn't break the tough eye staring that they're currently entertaining themselves with. Soon Jasper broke the ice and apologized, "Look, I'm sorry, okay? I didn't mean to give you such a hard time. I'm just trying to do this stupid 'quest' that my mother sent me away to."

"What quest?" Arthur asked before drinking his fifth ale.

"Well, my mother thought that I have to do this journey thing that I'm supposedly destined to do-" Jasper is interrupted again, "You too??? My father sent me away to do the same thing except to find Gisah Choillane first to know about the details more!" Arthur said. Now again, both are shocked and confused, one is thinking that they were destined to meet and the other, "wow, is it a common thing for children to be sent away from their parents to do some quest of destiny??"

Soon the clock strikes midnight and it's time for Jasper to rest eyes, they stood up before Arthur could continue drinking his eighth ale and asked, "do you know any place where I could rest?" Arthur pointed up signaling that there's rooms upstairs for an overnight stay. Jasper caught his look and proceeded along, before departing, "thanks by the way, it's been a long time since I've talked to a friend."

"Friend?" Arthur looked at them as they ask the bartender. Then the door of the tavern opens and another familiar face walks in, the sister of Arthur himself, Elena.