[sofire] Combining the Kingdoms [Knuxieh]

[Knuxieh]

Prince Micah stood with his mother to welcome the young princess and the King. Seeing them come over the distance, he groaned slightly, to which his mother nudged him. "Be polite, Micah." She scolded gently, to which he agreed, for now. As they finally made their way over, his mother welcomed the both of them to their kingdom of Falencia. Glancing towards the young princess, he sighed mentally before making his way over, and bowed politely. "Nice to see you again, Princess." He greeted and stood. "Would you want to go see the horses again? Mother got some new ones in a few weeks ago."

(I am..so sorry this is so short ; - ; )

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Princess Alys and King Ryder had a long travel ahead of them to get to Falencia, it was a few days ride from the Kingdom of Grial. She read most of the time, her nose was nearly always in a book recently, King Ryder trying to engage his daughter in conversation was beyond the question, so he stayed quiet and watched her. She was looking more and more like her mother every day. Alys was still young, but she'd grow into a beautiful woman one day and he hoped that she and the prince would marry and unite the two kingdoms.
As they disembarked from the carriage King Ryder took away the book Alys had her nose in and threw it into the carriage, gently nudging his daughter forward and murmuring, "Be polite, Alys." As Alys stepped forward and the Prince greeted her she curtsied to him and said, "A pleasure to be here, Prince Micah." Alys was carefully dressed in a pale pink dress with a matching ribbon in her blonde-brown hair, loose around her head in wavy tendrils, her expressive blue eyes registering a good amount of nervousness as she stood straight once more, "Thank you, Prince Micah. Maybe tomorrow, i'm a little tired after the travel." She glanced back at her father and then back to the Prince, a few years her senior and then she looked down at the ground, "I look forward to spending the summer with you again, Prince Micah, as always, your kingdom is beautiful during the summer season."

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Prince Micah nodded towards her. "Right, of course. My apologies for being so rude as to not take into account your weariness from the travels. I'm glad that you made a safe trip." He smiled towards her, and seeing that his mother and her father were talking again, more than likely about the engagement, he glanced a ways towards the castle. "Perhaps you would just like to rest for a little while, Alys?" He suggested as he held his hand out towards her. He knew she would slightly pick up that he was trying to get away from their parents. After the first summer they seemed to get to know each other quite well. Alys loved reading, while Micah was more of the marksman. Secretly enough, he loved cooking things, but of course his mother would never know. Everyone knows how prince's should hold themselves. Swords, Knights, Archery, and everything else in between. "I learned just last night on how to make those muffins you like." He admitted to her as they walked towards the castle, and were out of the hearing range of their parents. Micah was a few years older than her. He was about thirteen, and she was eleven. Not too much of a huge difference, thank goodness.

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Alys indeed took Micah's hand and went with him as they walked towards the castle, she was admiring the landscape as they walked when he told her about the muffins, it garnered one of her shy, beautiful smiles and she nodded, "That's sweet of you, Micah." She blushed and looked away from him, "I've been reading a book about an archer who wins a contest and a fair maiden's hand, it makes me think of you. I'd like to see you practice your archery again when ever you do, let me know so I can come watch, ok?" She brushed some of her long, wavy hair behind her ear and smiled at him again, "I'd love a muffin and a nap. Father kept trying to get me to talk to him on the way here about the engagement. Micah, I get so tired of hearing about it sometimes." She walked along with him, looking around and trying to remember everything she saw, she always felt like she might forget somehow.

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Smiling as he listened to her talk about a recent piece of literature she had read, he raised an eyebrow in curiosity. "Me? I don't know about that, my mother usually has me do swordwork more and more these days." He groaned out, obviously not happy about the idea. Alys knew how much he detested swords and the making of them. Though, he had just registered that she had wanted to see his archery sometime. "Well, I'm sure after your nap if you are still feeling up to it, I would be more than happy to demonstrate a few things for you." Micah stifled a laugh towards her about her father. That old man could be very persuasive and quite pushy if he wanted to be. "I know, trust me - It doesn't seem that way, but mother won't stop talking about how many grandchildren she wants, and names. I think she's brought up Alexander five times since yesterday. You think they talk about it so much the were the ones getting engaged!" Laughing, he made his way into the kitchen to fetch the muffin he had promised.

Returning a few short moments later, he handed it to her, deciding to snag one for himself and began to consume it. "Where would you like to nap? There's the study, the room, the fields, wherever you decide."

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Alys laughed softly and nodded, "I know, right, I think maybe they secretly have considered it but think they are too old." She waited for his return and was pleased when she bit into the muffin she made a noise of enjoyment as she consumed the muffin, thinking on where they could get away to take a nap in peace for awhile. "Do you still have that tree house?" She smiled as she finished her muffin up and stretched her arms towards the sky, "If not, I guess the field would be alright."