Chapter Thirteen: We’ll See
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Zoey nudged Leveret’s leg with the top of her head.
“Pardon you! That was very impolite!”
Levert scolded, pushing the goat’s face away.
“Why is everyone here a barbarian?!”
Zoey snorted in what Leveret took as agreement.
He chuckled, scratching behind Zoey's ear.
“I suppose… you are rather… cute… and civilized for a farm animal.”
He remarked pleasantly.
“I suppose… Martel- I mean, Marty… might have been…”120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPEvcKZ3iIG
He paused for a moment as if choking on the word with an agonized expression.
“...correct.”
Leveret snorted disdainfully.
“Nonsense! It’s just… a-a twity goat!”120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡszQJ1IY18G
The goat nipped at his ankle.
“Sorry, Madam! Wait, you should be the one apologizing!”
Marty chuckled as he crouched close to the ground, watching Leveret scold the goat.
“What’s ‘e doin’, Marty?”120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBED9DL5h7b
Bella asked, leaning over the fence.
“Shh. Can’t have ‘im knowin’ we’re watchin’ ‘im, dear!”120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkGJYnUqdYr
“Why?”
“It’ll hurt ‘is lil ego.”120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUSFzl937mQ
Bella looked at her brother out of the corner of her eye.
“Ya care a lot ‘bout ‘is ‘lil ego’ don’ ya?”
“Well, I gotta be polite, dear. I don’ wanna hurt ‘is feelins’.”
Bella’s nose scrunched.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjUnAMWk7hj
“Royalty have feelings?”
Marty smirked, running a hand through his hair.120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZxxjgeRRSE
“We’ll see, dear.”
“What in the Sethian Sorrows is that ‘posed to mean?!”
Marty waved his sister off.
“We’re doin’ a… alchemy experiment. Gonna take a bit though.”120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8AE6eWJBAQ
Bella clapped her hands.
“Oh, Marty! I love experiments!”
“I know, I know, dear. Now-”
Before Marty could finish, the old door to the farm house swung open, and out stepped a short woman in a flour covered apron and her brown hair tied tightly back from her face in a bun.
“Marty! I see you crouching in the grass like a troll! Get up! Them dishes are not getting any cleaner!”
Marty stumbled up out of the grass.
“Yes, Ma! My bad!”
“What about ‘is ‘lil ego’?!”
Bella called after her brother.
“Bella, not gonna lie to ya, dear, dessert is a priority an’ if I don’ do this I ain’t gettin’ it.”
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“Valid.”
Leveret stood in the field blinking for a moment as he watched the older boy’s silhouette grow fainter as he ran towards the dilapidated farm house.
“If I called Mother… ‘Ma’ she would be furious.”120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM5UKZ7riud
He mumbled to himself before glancing down at the goat by his feet.
“Mother would also never let me have a creature of my own.”
He scoffed, tapping his foot on the ground.
“What in the name of the fey am I doing?! Speaking with livestock and… and fraternizing with peasants! I must compose a plan! A plan! I must get Virelai out of that dreadful marriage!”
He hissed, rubbing his temples as he thumped his foot on the ground.
“How ya gon’ do that?”120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQG0XZ84CCY
He glanced over and laid eyes on Will who had apparently been lounging in the grass a few feet away.
“Where did you come from?!”120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ0SOX8Pkzn
“I came from my ma. That ain’t the point though. Answer my question! How are ya gon’ do… whatever you’re schemein’?”
Will replied in a sleepy tone.
Leveret cleared his throat.
“I…”
He paused for a moment, blinking.
“I-I… do not… know.”120Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxFywYB8jEP
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