Owen's pointed interrogation did not seem to faze the experienced sailor. Julianna was impressed by him and she assumed her husband was trying not to be. Just didn't want to like the man, because he wasn't his choice. Which was fine, but it was her turn to pick now that Santiago had turned out to be a failure. Her husband was looking at her now to continue to interview but she was satisfied. She had already settled on this new guard and they could ask him all the questions they wanted and it wouldn't make a bit of difference until he was put into the field.
Trial by fire and all that.
Julianna stood, and Atlas followed suit. Celeste couldn't help, but snicker and tried to hide it behind a throat clear. The older the Veridian man, the more the were so posh and polite with her mother. Especially with her father just lounging around so casually nearby.
"That's enough of the formalities," Jules chimed, a smile brightening her features. Owen would probably disagree with her. "Welcome to the family. So to speak." Julianna laughed before saying, "and good luck!"
In the coming weeks, what bothered Celeste most about Atlas was that he was just like her father. The public face of her father, anyway. Of course, Celeste knew how warm and loving her father could be, but that was special. Just for his family. He was almost an entirely different man to the public, and that was Atlas all the time.
He wasn't even a little bit fun, from what she could tell. Every now and again she could get other guards to play into her antics, or go easy on her, but not this one. Specialist Weatherfare came off like he had something to prove and she wondered who that could be. His father maybe? Admiral of the Royal Navy. Or just her mother, he seemed to be big on the royal family, but that was kind of boring.
The princess mulled over this as she dressed in the early morning to go get coffee at the open market. She had seen a post on Instagram about a nitro cold brew coffee place that was actually just a cart on the back of a bicycle and she wanted to try it before she went to the gym. And she wanted to try it, alone.
Celeste shoved her shoes into sneakers and walked over to her bedroom window to quietly slide it open. She'd devised what she thought was the perfect plan to get away from Atlas. Her tail swayed in her amusement. He probably thought she was still sleeping away and would do so until late morning since she had kept her phone on vibrate and tucked it under her pillow to wake her with a quiet alarm.
The sun was just coming up and the morning breeze through the window was still cool and wet.
Trial by fire and all that.
Julianna stood, and Atlas followed suit. Celeste couldn't help, but snicker and tried to hide it behind a throat clear. The older the Veridian man, the more the were so posh and polite with her mother. Especially with her father just lounging around so casually nearby.
"That's enough of the formalities," Jules chimed, a smile brightening her features. Owen would probably disagree with her. "Welcome to the family. So to speak." Julianna laughed before saying, "and good luck!"
***
In the coming weeks, what bothered Celeste most about Atlas was that he was just like her father. The public face of her father, anyway. Of course, Celeste knew how warm and loving her father could be, but that was special. Just for his family. He was almost an entirely different man to the public, and that was Atlas all the time.
He wasn't even a little bit fun, from what she could tell. Every now and again she could get other guards to play into her antics, or go easy on her, but not this one. Specialist Weatherfare came off like he had something to prove and she wondered who that could be. His father maybe? Admiral of the Royal Navy. Or just her mother, he seemed to be big on the royal family, but that was kind of boring.
The princess mulled over this as she dressed in the early morning to go get coffee at the open market. She had seen a post on Instagram about a nitro cold brew coffee place that was actually just a cart on the back of a bicycle and she wanted to try it before she went to the gym. And she wanted to try it, alone.
Celeste shoved her shoes into sneakers and walked over to her bedroom window to quietly slide it open. She'd devised what she thought was the perfect plan to get away from Atlas. Her tail swayed in her amusement. He probably thought she was still sleeping away and would do so until late morning since she had kept her phone on vibrate and tucked it under her pillow to wake her with a quiet alarm.
The sun was just coming up and the morning breeze through the window was still cool and wet.
I fear no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) I want no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true) and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you.
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