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…”38Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6p3AB5F9La
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!”38Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3Ck7izIk82
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?”38Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUApujMdpLH
Bella asked, leaning over the fence.
“Shh. Can’t have ‘im knowin’ we’re watchin’ ‘im, dear!”38Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVEjTD9jJUk
“Why?”
“It’ll hurt ‘is lil ego.”38Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUppzqsR6FK
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.38Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡElcNCOpgoM
“Royalty have feelings?”
Marty smirked, running a hand through his hair.38Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxqkcTWg0oG
“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.”38Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlL2OEfolcc
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.”38Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡegz8vWb0Vc
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?”38Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsBR7GntQOP
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?!”38Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmHtNrfmcsM
“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.”38Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Nzc7yBWn2
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