In between your legs

"It's not like that." I said.

But it was too late.

I had been silent. In support that a royalty should be treated special regardless of how the other people fared.

"Then it's like what?" He asked me.

I said nothing.

"My men were barely even having well enough to sleep with." He said. "They shared the beds. Now imagine me kicking them out to the cold."

The way he said it.

It would have been utterly cruel.

Was this what was normal and expected to me?

I had known that I was not comfortable with it deep down, but I had still accepted and held it as a belief.

"I went down to the barns and slept there." He continued.

"Erik came down early in the morning and found me. He knew that something had happened and he probably believed you kicked me out." He said. "That's probably why he had acted the way he had. He usually isn't like that."