Laren's Long Day

Councilman Laren’s POV

The shrubs underneath that windowsill were perfect for dry heaving into. I don’t think I’d ever seen anything more disgusting, and I’d raised a child. Granted, Holly was hardly a gross child. But babies were always going to be babies and do gross baby things like uncontrollable vomiting and defecation.

I was almost glad for the dismissal. King Olcan had just displayed something I never wanted to see again. Or think about. I shuddered, remembering the spray. My eye twitched.

My coachman is given firm instructions to drive the carriage home as expressly as possible. I am in desperate need of a full scrubbing. And to distract myself, I reflect very exclusively on Prince Alexander and Prince Consort Cassidy of Nasales. Very. Exclusively.