If there was one thing Felix wished he knew about the previous day when he woke up was the fact that he broke his nose. He remembered most of what happened the previous day. They were in the town; he slept for most of the day. Elke forced him to shop with her and he defended a girl he just met. Her name was Mabel. His memory was quite incredible but Felix did not realize that his nose was broken until he accidentally touched it in his sleep. Almost immediately he jolted awake at the pain. It did not feel good. He had a broken nose before, but this time felt different.
As he opened his eyes he knew exactly why it felt different from all of the previous times he broke his nose. This time he was put to sleep before he was made aware of the pain, and he awoke after it was treated. There were bandages made of cloth all around his head, obscuring the vision of one of his eyes. He checked to make sure that was what it was. His vision was just blocked by the bandage, it was nothing more serious.
Felix let out an audible sigh as he let his right eye explore the room he was in. It was his room at the inn but there were a couple of things different. Namely, there were two people there that were not there last time. One was Mabel, she was laying on the ground with a blanket covering her. The other one was Linde; she was standing against the opposite wall of the bed. Her eyes were closed, and she was clearly deep in thought and her presence immediately but Felix deep in thought.
Why was she there? Most likely to berate him but Felix would rather recover from his stupidity before she gave him a shovel to dig a bigger hole. She was definitely not happy with the stunt that he pulled last night, and Felix did not have a defense against it, it was completely within Linde's rights to be mad at him.
But why did he do it? Felix sighed. He knew why he did it. That part was simple, but Linde would not like that explanation. Truth be told, Felix did not like it that much either. It relied too heavily on the fact that he was drunk to make any sense. Felix wished that he used his brain last night. That was why he was with them on this mission. He was nothing compared to the skills of Linde and Elke, but his head was at least on the same scroll. So why did he just completely ignore any rational sense?
He was drunk. Was that all he was? A man that succumbed to his whims when he drank a little bit of impure water. That showed how little backbone he possessed. Elke was right, he did not have a backbone. Felix cracked under the simplest amount of pressure, and he left a mess for her to clean up in his absence. He even wanted her to clean it up. So stupid. It was everything he did not want to do bundled in one neat package.
Felix cursed to himself. That was not enough of a punishment. He almost wanted Linde to berate him till he was curled up in a ball on the ground. She would not go that far. Perhaps she might get him to the ground, but she at least held some semblance of humanity. Why did he remember it all? This was the perfect time to drink to forget and yet his memory of the previous night was perfect as if to punish him.
"You're awake." Linde was rather quiet; she probably just did not want to wake up the young redhead. Felix agreed with the sentiment.
"How long was I out?"
"Most of today, the sun has nearly set." Linde stated curtly.
"Were you here the entire time?" Felix wanted to know why she was there, but he felt like this was a good indirect question to led them in that question. Maybe if he just plainly asked the question he would end up having more of a backbone. It did not really matter now, what is done is done. There were no second chances. He could not redo the previous night. Felix gulped; would he redo the previous night?
"No... Second was here for most of the time. I took over for him a little bit ago. We did not want to leave you alone with her." She glared over at the redhead. Linde still sounded quite uncomfortable not calling the crown prince his highness.
