Grimm lay sprawled out on Hollow's bed, still in no way safe for work, but all the liquids had seemingly gone. Hollow was already awake and wrapped up in a dressing gown, he was busy working on Grimm's cloak with his needles. Grimm shuffled around on the bed, letting out a soft and indecipherable mumble. The prince turned his gaze to him, his clothes cleaned, folded and placed on the nightstand next to him, before checking the fancy ass clock above his bed "Never saw him as a bug who'd sleep in so long".
He laid down his needles and thread before lightly shaking the sleeping Grimm, "Come on Grimm, wake up before the king comes to find you". One of his bright scarlet eyes opened weakly "Mmm, five more minutes" he groaned "Grimm you've slept 20 minutes more than you should've". Grimm just closed his eye again "No, naughty Grimm. Get up" he threw the bedding off him. Grimm pulled himself up "Fiiine" Hollow plopped his clothes on his lap "Get changed, breakfasts in 3 minutes-" Grimm shot up "3 MINUTES!?" He hastily put on his clothes and flattened down any creases. The prince watched and giggled.
The prince stood up, taking off and tiding away his nightgown "You haven't got to run like you've seen an aspid Grimm" he chuckled as he put on some posh looking clothes from his wardrobe. "Come on Hollow. Those eggs won't eat themselves!" He was skipping on the spot as he spoke. "Where'd all this energy come from?" He spoke as he made his bed. Grimm just shrugged before running off to the dining hall, the prince shook his head a little before running off after him.
"Grimm, a pleasant surprise. I was just about to call someone to get you" the king spent no energy to even look at his son. The pair took their chairs, Grimm already tucking into his scrambled (No longer rancid) egg. The king turned to his other courtiers "So, we have Monomon's logbook and Herrah's crest. Now we have Lurien's lens so we have one thing left" the king shot a small glare at the unaware prince. The coutiers gave a small nod "On better news, Grimm" Grimm looked over to the top of the table "Your tent is a day from full repair. For compensation, 3,200 geo" That number really set Grimm off, to pay for all of the bills he'd need about 21,000 geo, he wouldn't even cover a 1/6 of that cost.
"Your highness, that amount of geo doesn't cover a quarter of the things I need to pay for all the bills and not to mention the fact we need to pay for all the food for the Grimmkins" the table stared at him, even Hollow, the king shook his head "Do you want it or not?" Grimm put down his head "Thank you your highness" he mumbled in a huff, Hollow nonchalantly pat Grimm's leg, basically telling him to calm down.
"Right, vessel. Can you take Grimm out of the castle for the day?" Even though the king spoke as a question Hollow knew that he had no choice "I couldn't care less where you go, we just have private matters at the palace that you and him can't see". The prince nodded "Of course father" Hollow looked to Grimm before excusing himself, Grimm soon followed him.
"What a weird little man" Grimm spoke as they walked, the prince nodded "I suppose we could go to the Hive, they make some of the best sweet treats in all of Hallownest. Shortcakes, ice creams, doughnuts and, my favourite, the pancakes they have" Hollow rummaged his pockets and plucked out a card slipped between his fingers "Perfect, 12% discount. Everything there is always expensive as hell, I guess they are the only source of honey in Hallownest so they can put their prices up" Grimm stared into space, Hollow was doing his mansplaining again.
Several minutes of mansplaining later*
Highness reared it's head up "Back...now?" Hollow went over and hugged Highness' head "Mask...damaged...Maskmaker?" Highness snuggled it's head against the prince "No, it's fine Highness-" Grimm stepped forward "Yes Highness, a quick stop to the Maskmaker couldn't hurt" the prince looked back to him, as did Highness "I...approve" Highness let out a small broken giggle.
Hollow grunted, hesitating for a moment before speaking "Fffffine" the prince pulled himself onto the seat in Highness' back "Get on". Grimm followed after him, relaxing himself on the stag's saddle "Plus you've been patched up everywhere except your mask. We want you to look as dashing as before...that happened" Grimm joked lightly, though his compliment about the prince being dashing was (As you'd expect) genuine. The prince giggled, giving Grimm a playful pat on the head "Hush you, it's obvious the most dashing bug in the kingdom is-" Highness shook the saddle "Stop...flirting...go...now?". The both of them blushed "Yes, yes. Sorry Highness, let's go" Hollow spluttered out. Highness let out that small broken giggle before running off to the Maskmaker's.