Thanks so much for the reviews & tips. I wanna update as often as I can ;)
"Hey, good morning!", Meghan yawns which interrupts Ash's thoughts of the past. She leans against him while following his gaze.
"What's so interesting about this view, huh?", she asks in a curious tune while Ash sighs and turns away.
"It's nothing, Meg. I was just..."
"You were looking yearningly into this direction while having a broody look. You do this every morning, honey and I have no idea why.", the Iron Queen points out with humor but has a concerned look in her sky-blue eyes.
"I should have known you were awake and watching me.", the former prince says while shaking his head, thinking how silly he was not to notice she watched him every morning.
She put's it off with a joke:" If you don't notice me anymore while I watch you, I'm seriously worried your winter sithe part get's weaker. You became sloppy in the last years, maybe I should send you to Tir Na Nog to get a refit!" She punches his shoulder playfully as she reads in his eyes he get's really panicked on the thought and may think he really needs a refit.
"Don't overreact, Ash! I like your new more human self. Now let's see if our breakfast is ready, I am really hungry."
He nods and follows her to the door but looks one more time back to the direction where the wyldwood would be. He knows he should be happy about his seemingly perfect life, but the truth is he misses the old days when he was just out there with his friend.
As soon as they arrive in the dining room Meghan sits down and grabs some very great looking pancakes and marmalade to spread. "Even queens can have great ordinary pancakes as breakfast...well not that ordinary when they were made by the best chefs in the Iron Realm", she points out randomly while Ash just takes a plate with fruits. He hesitates as he sees a delicious looking red apple before he changes his mind and eats fried dragon egg instead.
"Hey Mom & Dad! Great morning to fight some gremlins, right?", Keirran greets as he takes a plate full of toast with cheese and disappears again to his room. Meghan's eyebrows rise so high that Ash is fascinated how much a face can stretch before both let out a sigh. "Please keep an eye on him today, I have some conferences today.", she murmurs and takes a long sip from her coffee before she stands up with vigor and confirms:" This gotta be a day full of work to make the court better. Just as any other...I wish I could get vacation." Ash gives her an encouraging look and says:" If Keirran get's in trouble I'll get it right, don't worry."
*meanwhile in Arcadia*
"GOODFELLOW! WHAT DID YOU PUT IN MY SOUP?", Titania hisses while ripping the door of his room from its moorings. The summer prankster get's up and tries to escape by jumping out the window but his hood get's grabbed by the summer queen's scrawny hands.
"Lady Mean Temper, why would I ever put something in your soup? And if it calms you down I may give away the fact that blow-flies are a delicacy in Mumbai...", he calls out with flawlessly played shocked expression first but a cunning grin while saying the second sentence. Titania's face turns red which makes her even look more like a female devil version and Puck can't hold it back any longer and barks out laughing as he sees a fly leg stuck between her teeth. "This was the last time you ever annoyed me, scumbag! I don't care if Oberon likes you or not, he may never find out how his jester disappeared!", she says with crazy eyes. With one quick move Puck warps her arms around & spins her with so much speed that she can't stand anymore when he finally stops and jumps out of the window, turning into a giant raven, heading to the wyldwood
