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“Do you think the people will accept you?”
“Do not listen to them. Just keep walking.” Gale’s voice was the only gentle one.
“Prince Galahad, are you happy Arthur is dead so you can be king?”
At that, Gale stopped for only a second, but I pulled him away before he did what I knew he wanted to do—shove that camera down the throat of whoever had said it.
I pulled hard, and we managed to get into the car. Iskandar shut the door behind Gale. When he did, I could see Gale’s face turning red, his grip on me tightening to the point my hand trembled.
“Gale. Gale, you are hurting me.”
“What?” He pulled himself from his thoughts, only then noticing his hand. “Forgive me,” he said, letting go quickly.
“Are you all right?” I whispered, putting my hand on his lap. “What they said.”
“It will only get worse until they get the reaction they want,” he muttered, his face pale. “Welcome to royalty.”
“Don’t scare me. I am always looking to run, remember?” I tried to joke, but their words must have gotten to him because he wasn’t having it.
“Now that they have your name, Odette, they will never forget or let you off,” he whispered back. “I want you here, but I fear I just damned you also.”
I leaned closer, very close, to the point where he could only look at me strangely, not understanding. With a straight face and stern eyes, I said, “Fâlipüks.”
He stared back, his face shaking until he couldn’t hold it any longer and snorted then broke out laughing. And it made me feel so much better to hear it. “That should be an insult, but when you say it with that accent, it is hilarious.”
“Do not make fun of my accent.”
“You make fun of mine.”
“I make fun of the words you use to speak, not the accent.”
“Waskads.” He rolled his eyes.
I sounded out the word again. But I couldn’t figure it out. “What does that mean?”
“Whatever.”
I frowned. “But what and ever together do not make that in Ersovian.”
“Every language has slang, Odette.” He smiled and held my cheek. “Do not worry. I will personally teach you...at night.”
From the look in his eye, he did not seem to have teaching in mind.
“Waskads.”
