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…”12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXErao8kfs6
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!”12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS1vX3HuzcK
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?”12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAkpVetkENt
Bella asked, leaning over the fence.
“Shh. Can’t have ‘im knowin’ we’re watchin’ ‘im, dear!”12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfTyxeCayTU
“Why?”
“It’ll hurt ‘is lil ego.”12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvdQHYFvQI6
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.12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXmr7aAhq3F
“Royalty have feelings?”
Marty smirked, running a hand through his hair.12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOX5BC7IT1q
“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.”12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbdMmDVeYsm
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.”
Bella nodded sagely.12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmMr8Xz5ocD
“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.”12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpZ6wB6bFi3
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?”12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSswKAO6lcN
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?!”12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkCXXCTk8q2
“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.”12Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO85OVmzY7u
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