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Jann is minding his own business. He is playing by himself in the courtyard with a wooden sword: this definitely constitutes minding his own business. Nothing that follows is his fault.
abeance
"You're welcome, Milo. Where's your dragon? I'd better try to explain rather than just sneaking off with you."
first-and-final
"He's napping in the back. You can come in and have a cup of tea if you want, while we wait for him to wake up. You look very dashing. Did I miss your knighting? I missed your knighting, didn't I."
abeance
"I postponed my knighting to come get you, Princess," snorts Jann, stepping into the caves. "We'll go home and I'll get knighted and you'll have a front-row seat."
first-and-final
"Alternately, I could pour the kettle over your head," grumbles Milo, but he shows Jann to the kitchen and provides tea and does not dump boiling water on him.
first-and-final
"Exasperating. But I did get to organize the dragon's library and treasure rooms. That part was fun."
abeance
Jann sips tea. "Well, at least you had something to do."
Dragon footsteps approach and Jann puts his teacup down and clears his throat.
"I smell a knight!" says Roxim.
Dragon footsteps approach and Jann puts his teacup down and clears his throat.
"I smell a knight!" says Roxim.
first-and-final
"Roxim, this is my cousin Jann, who is here to verify that I am a prince," says Milo. "Jann, the dragon Roxim."
abeance
"Hello, dragon Roxim!" says Jann politely, standing up and making a slight bow. "I don't mean to presume on your hospitality. I'm just here to clear up the misunderstanding about my cousin Milo, who is, in fact, a prince. You're not the first to make this mistake but it's probably best if I just take him home now."
"Hmmm," says Roxim. "He does smell like a princess."
"Probably he should change soaps," says Jann blandly.
Roxim chuckles. "Oh, very well, he's running out of things to do anyway. Go on then. If you'd like to tap me with the flat of your sword to have a story to embellish for all your friends, you may, since you're so polite."
"That's very kind of you," says Jann, and he taps Roxim on one of his horns quite gently with the flat of his sword, and then bows again and gestures to Milo.
"Hmmm," says Roxim. "He does smell like a princess."
"Probably he should change soaps," says Jann blandly.
Roxim chuckles. "Oh, very well, he's running out of things to do anyway. Go on then. If you'd like to tap me with the flat of your sword to have a story to embellish for all your friends, you may, since you're so polite."
"That's very kind of you," says Jann, and he taps Roxim on one of his horns quite gently with the flat of his sword, and then bows again and gestures to Milo.
first-and-final
"Thanks, Roxim," says Milo. "You've been very reasonable about this, all things considered."
He finishes his tea and rinses out the cup and puts it away - Jann's too, and the teapot and kettle - and bows to Roxim and departs with Jann.
He finishes his tea and rinses out the cup and puts it away - Jann's too, and the teapot and kettle - and bows to Roxim and departs with Jann.
abeance
Jann has had the foresight to bring along a second horse. Onto the second horse goes Milo. "This way. I'm glad I didn't have to actually fight him, graduation or no."
first-and-final
"I get the impression he wouldn't have fought very hard even if you'd challenged him the usual way. Roxim's pretty mellow for a dragon."
first-and-final
"Magic, probably. I'm more worried about the fact that apparently I smell like a princess."
abeance
"I don't know. Uh, marry up? Probably less inconvenient to smell like something other than a princess, and they're getting your noble status right, just not your gender?"
first-and-final
"Yes. That would be an advantage. However, I don't know any single monarchs I want to marry."
abeance
"Well, you never seem to like anybody, and you can't just stay single forever unless you're planning to stick me with Raxwell. Please don't, by the way."
first-and-final
"I've liked people!" he exclaims, perhaps unwisely. "I just don't tell you about it the way you seem determined to make sure everyone you've ever met knows Jann of Raxwell has kissed yet another girl."
