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Its a hard call to make. Stay here and get jerked around by the prince, or risk messing things up on your first day on the job? No, twenty minutes to change simply does not add up. Not to a spartan such as yourself, who only owns five sets of identical pieces of clothing. Damn the consequences, you trust your gut on this one and step through the door.
On the other side, you find the Prince laying on a futon and reading a dark blue book. He is completely dressed after all! He does not seem pleased to have you barging in.
"Excuse me, but I did not give you permission to enter. Wait a minute, who are you?" The Prince jumps up before cautiously, yet curiously, stepping towards you.
"My prince, I am your new bodyguard. Pardon my intrusion but I had started to worry you were in duress taking so long..."
"New body guard? What happened to Vargis?" He gets quite close and stands up onto his tippy toes in order to attempt peeking at the face behind the helmet. He places his hands onto your breastplate for support, as he has a long way to go.
"My prince, due to recent <span class="mu-i">events</span> Vargis was forced to retire…" You hope to see a change in the princes expression, perhaps a show of regret? But there is no change that you can detect, he does not seem overly concerned. He is more interested in examining your face.
He suddenly cringes and steps back, the fingers on his hands curl. "Oh gross, I remember you. You're that weirdo that was leering at me yesterday… no wonder you burst in here, you were hoping to see me naked."
"I assure you my prince, that is simply not true. I ask you to not play these games."
He shivers "Ah, you just wanted to see my butt. Gross. Disgusting. At least have the courage to admit it. You're one of those homos, papa should hear of this... How can I sleep at night knowing you are waiting to grab a handful…"
"If my prince believes that to be necessary."
He is putting on quit the show, but you detect that he tactically knocks over a pillow onto his book in order to occlude it. When he finishes hiding it, he forgets about the whole indecent and moves on from it.
"What ever, find yourself a place to stand and become a statue then."
You spend the next few hours doing just that. Keeping silent vigil over the prince as he moves from one distraction to the next. He never able to settle, and he never approaches the futon again.
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