“I heard that!”
He smiled innocently, too innocent to be considered innocent, “heard what?”
I waved my hand at him, “you know what? Forget about it, I can't seem to win a conversation with you”.
He smiled.
“ Hope you like the meal, it was prepared with love and care, it will be a shame for it to go to waste”
I nod, "I don't intend on wasting it."
I don't have any intention of wasting good food.
I'm a prince, yes, but I hate it when food is wasted.
There are people out there who need the food you're wasting, it will be better to give it to the willing ones instead of throwing it into the already fertile ground.
“ Until tomorrow prince_cess”, he walked back to wherever he came from, chuckling as he went.
The door opposite mine opened and Kwofo came out, “Who were you speaking with earlier?” he looked like he just woke up from sleep.
“ If it were to be a kidnapper that came here, he would have abducted me, and you my dear will be too busy sleeping to know what's happening”
He looked smug.
“ It wasn't a kidnap, right? I better get back to my sweet dream. I only came out because I thought a maidservant brought food for you.
I'm as famished as you're”, he banged the door behind him.
One hell of an aide I have. I bet the other aides don't act as nonchalantly as mine.
He can make for with a lesson or two on 'the proper way to serve your master or mistress as a guide, I will enlist Jionu's help, she will know what to do about him.
But it can wait until tomorrow, for now, I have a delicious meal to take care of.
It will be a sin to the food world if I fail to take care of their sibling. It needs to rest, and the perfect place for that is in my stomach.
I made quick work of the delicious food.
After I was through with the meal did I remember one crucial thing.
We might have made peace, but that doesn't mean everyone supports the peace, some people find ways to terminate the others without it being obvious.
I've eaten a meal that was brought by a werewolf I just meet today, without thinking anything about it.
What if the food was poisoned?
I should have at least told Kwofo about it, this was the topic my father talked about the most, he warned me about wolves in sheep's clothing.
Is he among those wolves?
Is this his ploy to terminate me from the competition?
Once the only heir to the Ugali kingdom dies, the five kingdoms will scatter without a guide, they will be like sheep without shepherds.
A high prince is a string holding the kingdoms.
Any high king without an heir doesn't last before his subjects revolt against him.
It happened once in our history, my great-grandfather didn't give birth to a male.
When he died, the five kingdoms scattered, each trying to find an anchor.
It took a powerful mage to find out about my great-grandfather's spawn (that's my grandfather) in another kingdom.
He was found and crowned king two moons after the death of the father he didn't know existed until he was found.