How I Stole the Princess's White Knight and Turned Him to Villainy--The Complete Works by AJ Sherwood

Author:AJ Sherwood
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: gay fiction
Publisher: Raconteur House LLC
Published: 2022-12-11T06:00:00+00:00

Twenty-nine

Tan

Tan sing-songed, “I see rocks of grey, grey rocks there too, I see the rocks, and they are grey, and I think to myself, I am bored~”

Devan grunted in agreement. “The rocks are not riveting.”

“Truly.” Tan had sat through all of yesterday afternoon with nothing happening, and today was apparently a repeat of yesterday. Which was entirely unhelpful. Tan liked action, thank you.

Devan shrugged. “Sun’s nice, though. I’ve had worse weather while on a stakeout.”

“Oh, no question.”

After Topaz fed them an excellent breakfast, they’d come out to sit on the edge of the cliff, spying down into the Straits. The sea below was peaceful, the tide coming in against the rocks, making a rhythmic crashing noise. Seagulls flew overhead, and the wind had a little nip to it that gave Tan errant shivers, but it was fine. He had a Devan and knew how to use him.

For the first time, Tan really studied the geography. For all that he’d been to Topaz’s many a time, he’d never really looked past the cliffs. The Straits were a collection of small islands and boulders, which all made the water treacherous if you didn’t know precisely where to go. Sailors had figured out the perfect path to navigate it smoothly generations ago, so people just screwing up and wrecking the ship was out. Especially if they had fair weather. This wasn’t some far-flung area, either, where monsters felt they could hunt without competition. The Straits saw regular traffic because it was the easiest route to visit all of the major cities on the coast.

This whole thing made no sense.

“Why,” Tan mused aloud, “did anyone look at the Straits and go, ‘Oh yes, that’s totally doable. We can navigate that.’ Just looking at it from this angle, it’s like looking at an obstacle course. With teeth.”

“I really can’t disagree but if we’re asking the deep questions, who first looked at an onion and figured out the layers of it were actually meant to be eaten? With anything else you peel the outer layer and the edible part is inside, not even more layers to peel.”

Tan blinked, struck by the thought. “You know, I never questioned that, but you’re absolutely right. Who did that? Some desperately hungry person?”

“Or someone like you, who feels challenged to eat all the weird things in life.”

“I would like to observe that eating random things so far has worked out quite well for me. I’ve only suffered food poisoning once.”

“The once is usually enough to deter people.”

“Bah, cowards. It’ll take more than once to scare me.”

“Clearly. Why are you shivering?”

“Because it’s cold up here!” Tan scooted in another inch—or tried; he was pretty plastered to Devan’s side already—and snuggled in further. “Why aren’t you cold?”

“I run hot, always have.” Devan wrapped an arm around his back. “I’ll break the wind for you.”

Oooh, snuggles. Tan made a happy noise and promptly took advantage.

They went back to looking below. Even more nothing happened. Tan was starting to wonder if this whole observing-from-afar method was the right choice.

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