Title: Wedding Cake Vs. Truth
Characters: Nealan of Queenscove, Domitan of Masbolle
From Truth and Lies, Prompt 46, Truth and Lies, tammy drabble LJ community
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One should always be truthful, the teachers say.
Neal snorts disdainfully. Or at least, as disdainfully as an eight-year-old can.
Being truthful got him into this fix. How is that helping?
Well, he hadn't been strictly truthful…it was true that he had been involved in the grand kidnapping of his sisters wedding cake.
It was true, so to speak, that it had been his idea to sneak into the kitchen and sneak back out with the cake while Cook's back was turned.
It had been his idea to take it outside and watch it in the moonlight.
It had been his stomach that grumbled first.
But it was Dom who suggested eating it first.
Several hours later, Neal, having talked himself out of trouble by blaming his cousin for everything, sits by the door, munching his second piece of the (wholly restored) cake.
"Enjoying it in there?" He asks in his trademark sarcastic drawl.
"Bug off." Dom growls back. "Traitor."
Neal decides that, while truth may be the right thing to do, lying is decidedly more profitable. And fun. Licking the icing off his fingers, he also decides it tastes better. Dom will be getting cabbage stew for days.