Marigolds in the Kingdom's Memorial //SBI//

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It was an early morning in Ardmore... 

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Techno heard laughter fill the halls, then footsteps reach his door. A knock.

"Techno!" his little brother called out.

Techno groaned, still so tired, and half asleep. 

"Techno!" the young child called again.

Techno sat up in his bed, and rubbed the sleep away from his eyes. Tommy fumbled with the door handle to his older brother's bedroom door.

"Are you up?" he spoke through the crack between the hall and his bedroom.

Techno groaned louder, trying to respond. Tommy heard, taking his grunts as his answer.

"Okay! Breakfast is ready on the table!" Then Techno heard Tommy dash back off into the halls of the castle. His footsteps then vanished into the depths of the floor beneath him.

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"Oh, there you are!" Phil told when Techno made his way downstairs and into the dining room.

"Sometimes I think you could sleep all day, Techno." Wilbur said sarcastically, as he made his way around the dining room table, setting down plates of breakfast foods.

"Well..." Techno was cut off when Wilbur set down a full plate of cooked bacon in front of him.

"Wilbur." Phil said, in a serious tone, but still slightly amused. Wilbur smiled.

"Well, Techno, aren't you going to eat your breakfast?"

Tommy started snickering from the seat next to Phil.

"Wilbur." Phil pulled the back of Wilbur's undershirt, causing him to look behind him.

Tommy instantly reached his hand for the bacon, only for it to be pulled back by Phil, who then whispered to him. Neither Wilbur or Techno could hear, but they simultaneously agreed it was a short lesson on manners again. Techno shook his head with a small smile, but still not amused by Wilbur's joke.

Wilbur sat down, and started serving Tommy a big sunny-side-up egg, a piece of buttered toast, and a couple pieces of bacon. Then he handed the other's plates to them, with more food than Tommy's.

"Wilbur, why did you give me this stuff?!" Techno pushed his plate in out in front of him, and pointed to the bacon.

"Oh come on your seventeen and can't eat bacon?" Wilbur teased yet again. Phil sighed, knowing Wilbur wouldn't give the joke up easily.

"Wilbur, take it off of his plate." Phil ordered calmly.

Wilbur then fake pouted, but still picked the pieces off of Techno's plate, and stuck them on his plate.

"Hey, where is mommy?" Tommy asked, noticing Kristin wasn't at the table with them after only a few bites in.

"She had to work very early, Tommy." Wilbur explained, knowing the issues their father had been having.

"Why.. Why aren't you at the front room, dad?" Tommy asked.

"Well, Tommy. There's just been some stuff going around. I've been busy doing other stuff, and I may have to leave for a bit later to figure some stuff out about-"

"Yeah, yeah go and take a vacation while your kingdom falls apart." Wilbur harshly joked, interrupting Phil with a sudden sour attitude, clearly not joking but trying to play it off as one.

"Wilbur. I am not ever going to taking a vacation while my kingdom falls apart. Ever. I need to travel to the next place over, Onstad, and make things right."