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“I’m fine.” Rainier plastered on a smile even though the sight of the physician brought back unpleasant memories.
“I came by to see your Mother.”
Rainier tilted his head. “She’s sick?”
The yellow feathers coming out of the physician’s head twitched. “Female troubles.”
No wonder she didn’t ask Rainier to heal anything. It’d be too embarrassing even if he could do something for that. “Ah. Well, I won’t keep you.”
“Are you sure you’re alright?”
“I’m fine.”
“You look a bit…” He glanced down at Rainier's body. “You look a bit thin.”
He either needed to get his eyes checked, or he was lying and covering it up when he meant to say fat.
“There’s nothing wrong with me.”
The physician squinted and made a faint chirp noise in the back of his throat. “You look thinner than the last time I saw you, Your Majesty.”
“I haven’t changed a bit.” Unfortunately. “Excuse me.”
He hurried ahead to the sixth floor where the library was and had to pause in the hallway and lean against the wall. Two quick flights of stairs, and he felt like he’d run the city wall. Weak.
He found his Kitten in the library at a table with a book. Inky was loafed on the table with his eyes half-closed, and Felix’s face brightened at the sight of him.
“Look who it is, kitty.”
Inky barely acknowledged Rainier’s presence as he sat. “Guess what?”
“What?”
“Since you’ve never seen a unicorn before, I’m going to take you to Jolly Farms so you can see a whole bunch of them!”
Felix’s eyes lit up in the sunlight from the windows over the shelves. “You’re taking me to a unicorn farm?”
Rainier smiled and nodded. Felix forgot the book and leaned over to hug him.
“Oh, my God. I’ve always wanted to see one. Mum mentioned us going because I wanted to before, but you know how that is. Life got in the way, and we kept forgetting.”
“We do have to wait a bit,” said Rainier. “The owner of Jolly Farms is cousins with one of our servants. I asked her about the area because there was a bit of a bandit problem last year, but she said the lord there took care of that. It’s been quiet and safe, but there’s no place to stay since the nearby village has no inn at the moment. It caught fire, and they’re rebuilding.”
“That’s terrible.”
“She said no one was hurt, but there’s no other place close enough to sleep unless we don’t stay long. I would think you’d prefer to enjoy the unicorns for more than a couple of hours, and I’d prefer we not sleep outside. They have some there that can be ridden if you’d like.”
Felix’s eyes widened. “Hell, yes!”
Rainier laughed and kissed him. “She said it'd be safer to wait a month for them to rebuild, get furniture, and all of that.”
“I can wait if it means we get to ride unicorns.”
Rainier reached to pet Inky who made a quick noise when he was touched.
“Are you all right?” asked Felix.
“I’m fine.”
