"You all saw it, too, right?" The last old Fae to enter the multipurpose room that served as a throne room, coronation and sometimes, even a council room asked. They had gone to plead with Ian to stay because they all knew, and they had felt it…. And then felt it again.
Murray especially would have been amazed to know that the utterance about the test that his master had supposedly taken was not just empty words.
"Yes, we did,"
Nods in agreement went around. A few were puzzled, wondering if there was a hidden meaning in all this.
"It's strange though. I didn't know that the royal tests could be done that way. This is unprecedented!"
"Of course! That's expected of Prince Roman's offspring…"
A moment of silence ensued before one old Fae known to be controvertial, said,
"Are we sure that he is Prince Roman's offspring? The prince never had a-"
"Fools will always be fools even if they grow! Hmfp!"
"What did you call me?"
