Roleplay with TheNovaSwag

Chapter 19: Peaceful Dinner to Chaotic Misunderstanding

M: When Anglo pat Mandara's leg to tell him he was finished, the kid barely even registered it from being too far into the grooming from Derogan, eyes closed and humming contently as his brother was working his feathers with expert care.

Derogan chuckled at his little brother in complete bliss and stopped so he could come back to earth. Mandara whined when Derogan stopped but perked up at the mention of food.

"Yes please," he said, sliding off the bed, Derogan merely nodded and too got off. Silver Streak decided that she wanted to join too so she flew over and landed on her friend's shoulder.

"I can't wait to tell Father that we beat the head of insurgents with pillows," Derogan jeered at Saxon.

"What's an insurgent," Mandara asked innocently, "is it like, a military group or something?"

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"You are so precious," Mandoria claimed, letting the stablehands take Xanthos, "you are just like my eldest son, Derogan."

"You know, Johann hasn't gotten a chance to meet the princes yet," Rowen stated, "perhaps he may join you for dinner so they can get to know each other."

Mandoria smiled at the suggestion, "that is a splendid idea, after all, he will be staying until we find a good home for him, would you like that Johann?"

N: Johann nodded in excitement, he would like to meet people around his age, and he was a little hungry too, so he rushed out of the stable, waiting at the entrance for Mandoria to catch up.

As they walked towards the dining hall, he requested, "may I not have any spicy food? The food is nice and all, but my tongue kind of died."

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Saxon tensed when Mandara asked the question, he forgot that he didn't know he was the head of insurgents. He quickly gave Derogan an annoyed look for slipping, then he had a silent argument with Anglo about who should say.

Saxon lost, and remembering that Mandoria warned against talking about insurgents to his sons, said, "insurgents are a sort of military group," he patted the younger country on the head, "but it's the sort of adult stuff that you would not find any interest in."

He turned to Derogan, "and you are not going to peep a word about you two defeating me with pillows, it would ruin my reputation."

"What reputation?" Anglo joked as he made his way to the door and opened it, making sure nothing caught on his wing as he dragged it on the ground behind him. Saxon grunted and walked through, spotted a servant, and ran over to them to ask for something.

No one heard them as he gave his request, and the servant gave him a strange look before walking away to do it. Saxon turned around to see Anglo giving him a confused look, so he smiled, "it is nothing you need to worry about. Let's make our way to dinner."

M: Mandara and Derogan giggled at Anglo's joke about reputation, and Mandara said, "well since a lot of people have been looking for him, I'd say he is quite the celebrity."

Derogan frowned at that, yes Saxon is a celebrity but not the type you would want to meet. He was also a little miffed that no one would tell Mandara the truth, but perhaps it was for the better that he didn't know.

When the group entered the dining room, Mandara suddenly said to Saxon, "Hey I just remembered, Silver said that you were in the eye of Ora and a kid tried to attack you, what was all that about?

Derogan also looked to Saxon for an explanation.

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Rowen still had scouting to do so he bid the two goodbye and remounted his horse, bringing back out the stable gates. When Johann mentioned the spiciness of the food Mandoria chuckled.