The Dragons winced, several turning away as they made gagging sounds.
I burst out laughing.
They glared at me.
“Youareteasing us,” Kaspian growled.
“No, I'm not!” I held up my hands. “I'm laughing because you're all supposed to be these powerful men with magic and yet my description of a facelift makes you queasy.” I laughed again. “Pussies!”
“What did he just call us, Your Majesty?” Sir Hapsedes asked Kaspian.
Kaspian grimaced, then said, “I believe he just called us a woman's sexual part.”
All the Dragons glared at me.
“It's what we call people when we're teasing them about being, uh, well, weak.” I scowled. “I guess that's kinda insulting towards women. I should stop using that word.”
“Towards women?!” Hapsedes scrunched his face at me. “What about towards us? We trained for many years to become good enough to guard our king.”
“Whoa!” I held up my hands. “I didn't mean to get personal with you. It was teasing. Fuck, dude. Take a joke. Sheesh, you guys are tightly wound motherfuckers. You need to relax.”
The cat mewed.
I looked down to see it sitting beside me, cleaning its face. Only a few bones remained on the waxed parchment. The cat looked up at me, then at the men, and went back to his cleaning as if dismissing their idiocy.
“See? Even the cat thinks you're overreacting.”
“And you need to remember who you are speaking to,” Kaspian rumbled. “Show more respect to your duke and more leniency to his otherworldly ways.”
“Yes, Your Majesty,” the knights said as one.
“Aw, Kas. It's all right. I shouldn't have said that.”
“No, it's not all right. And no, you should not have said anything about your world, Demetrius.” Kas turned his glare on me. “Did I not just say that we would leave those advances on Earth?”
“Yeah.” I held up my hands. “You're right. I'm sorry. I got carried away. I won't talk about that stuff anymore.”
Kaspian sighed. “You may talk about it with me since I was there. But no one else, Mate.”
“Got it.”
Kas looked at his knights. “And none of you will repeat what my mate says about his world.”
“Yes, Your Majesty!” The knights came to attention and inclined their heads.
I rolled my eyes. “So, where are we off to next?”
“I will show you the rest of the city. There are many interesting neighborhoods.” Kaspian gestured down the street, then at the carriage. “Shall we?”
“Why don't we just walk?”
“Walk? I'm the King.”
“You can walk. I've seen it. You just did it. You use those things on the ends of your legs. They're called feet.”
Sir Vadron's lips twitched, but no one else reacted. Except for Kas, of course.
“Very amusing, Mate.” He took my hand. “If you wish to walk, we will. It may indeed be a better way to see the city. But I warn you, it's a large city.”
