Chapter Twenty-three

"I can not believe this" Lavan said "The first free moment we have together, you and I are going to have some serious prank lessons. I can not marry a woman who does not know a good prank when she sees one. When I was your age, I was out…shall we say…keeping the knights on their feet"

"I always keep the knights on their feet…the squires and pages for that matter as well"

"Were you flirting with any of them?"

"Of course not"

"Are you lying to me?"

"Of course not"

"Are you lying to me now?"

"Of course not"

"Will you ever lie to me?"

"Of course not"

"Where is your off switch?"

"Of course not-I mean there isn't one"

"Well…you certainly have the annoyance factor I like down"

Jennaya smiled "I had ten years to annoy my father, brother, cousin, and uncle, then six years annoying Alanna, Elspeth, and the sisters"

"What about after that?"

"I went back to annoying my father, brother, uncle, and cousin…as well as Alanna and Elspeth"

"Oh they must have loved that"

"Yeah...Alanna shows her affection with pillow fights"

"She throws pillow fights?"

"Yep"

"Yep?"

"What? Do you want 'yes sir, she throws pillow fights sir'?"

"If you want to say that, I wouldn't object but..."

"You are so immature!"

"I am immature?"

"Yes, you are immature"

"Refresh my memory…who was it that threw peas at a visiting diplomat?"

"I was 4! And I was aiming for my cousin!"

"Oh…so you were throwing peas at a prince? That makes a world of difference on the maturity scale"

"That's right! It does!"

"It makes you seem younger"

"No it doesn't! He was bugging me!"

"Oh, he was bugging you…remind me to bug you in the presence of our king, I'd love to see you throw peas at a king"

"I already hit my uncle with peas"

"Really?

"Yep. The lecture lasted about 4 hours…and then there was the other one… and the other one… and the oth…"

"How many lectures did you get…"

"One, two …carry the one… I lost track after ten."

"Ten?"

"Yep… ten…that was just for the time I through peas at Uncle Ronald"

"You threw peas at your uncle more then ten times?"

"Of course not! It was for that one time"

"Who exactly lectured you?"

"Dad, Uncle Roald, Aunt Lianne, Cousin Roger, Mom, Sir Myles, the dude who teaches etiquette…"

"That dude who teaches etiquette?"

"I would have called him that boring dude, but you might not have known which one I was talking about…but there were other boring dudes who lectured me…lets see there was the dude who teaches math, geography, captain of the King's Own, the current spymaster…I can't tell you who he is, but I can tell you he is not boring, and then there was…"

"Ok, Ok, I get it, there were a lot"

"Yeah… I'm going to miss making fun of those boring guys."

"Well you can make fun of new boring guys… plus Tusaine has something Tortal doesn't."

"What's that?"

"Me."

"My, you are full of your self…you sure there's boring guys I can make fun of in Tusaine?"

"Oh yeah tons."

"Woo hoo!"

Lavan shook his head and started talking to one of the other knights, while Jen day dreamed about annoying people.