“Master Percus! How is Nessa doing?” Marcia said once she recognised the person speaking with Rex. “Responding to treatment quite well, her physiology should have rejected the medicine, but it seems it has taken well, now young man, please answer my earlier question” the physician named Percus said, leaning forward to look at Marcia and Rex over the top of the rim of his glasses while he spoke. “You don’t expect the prince to be able to see that kind of magic?” Marcia asked, looking between Percus and Rex. “The prince!? You are the famed prince Rex?” Percus said, his glasses almost sliding off his face. “I wouldn’t say the famed prince, but yes, I am Rex.” “My deepest apologies my lord! That of course explains how you saw my wards I placed” Percus said, bowing to Rex. “Why would you place wards on a hospital?” Rex asked, tilting his head a little in confusion. “I am not sure what a hospital is my lord” Percus replied, “Ah one second, I have heard that word before!” he exclaimed

Turning down the last alley that led to the main gate to the palace grounds, Rex had a feeling wash over him, ‘I’m not alone.’ Acting as if he had not noticed, Rex was now halfway down the alley when a shadow dropped down in front of him, landing with a barely audible thud. “Nice night for a stroll?” “One of the men from the balcony” Rex replied, raising an eyebrow, he was able to see quite clearly and recognized the face of the man in the shadows, “Where’s your friend who wore the rags?” “He has skills it seems Jasper” said another male voice from behind him. “Indeed he does seem that way, come quietly, or don’t, we get paid either way, I would prefer not to get blood on my new shirt” the man called Jasper replied with a snarl, wiping his hand down the front of his shirt. “I choose option three thanks” Rex replied with a shrug, letting his hand drop onto the pommel of the sword he had. “There is no option three” Jasper replied, seeing Rex’s hand drop to his hip, “Must be a nice

“You seem different Ley, is everything ok?” Rex asked once he matched Ley’s walking speed. “I could ask you the same thing Rex” he replied, looking over to Rex, smiling a little at his effort in keeping pace with him, due to Ley’s size, his stride was almost twice the distance of everyone else. “I’m fine” Rex said, shrugging his shoulders, he was not lying about that, he felt like he usually did. “We will train with the weapons I have, you left that snake’s sword behind, yes?” Ley asked, glancing down to Rex’s hip. “Well to be honest, I don’t even know what happened to it, haven’t seen it since last night, why?” Rex asked, feeling his hip from habit. “I am sick of seeing it, any gift from him always comes with a price” Ley replied, clenching his fist. “You do not like him, do you?” “If I was allowed to end him, I would do it slowly” Ley replied, gritting his teeth. “Jesus man! It was a question, now new topic, what grueling regime do you have for me today?” Rex said, rapping hi

Once the loud noise reached Rex’s ears, he immediately stiffened his body and began to scan the crowd for the source. Lacey, seeing Rex being distracted by something, took this opportunity to dash forward with a test stab, staying ready with her shield to block any attack Rex might use if he was faking. Seeing Lacey jump forward out of the corner of his eye, he quickly reacted, using the edge of his sword to push Lacey’s attack away and giving Lacey an annoyed grunt, lazily swinging at her with the blade’s edge, she easily blocked the attack with her shield and stepped backward. ‘Something is wrong, he is much faster and stronger than this, I expected much more resistance’ Lacey thought, seeing Rex’s eyes constantly darting around as if searching for something. After a few minutes of Lacey probing Rex, and he lazily retaliating, the crowd started to grow tired, some booing and some whispering about refunding their money, at this point Rex noticed the noise that was assaulting him s

“Much better” Rex exclaimed once he had eaten his fill, sliding back on the chair to allow his stomach room. “That was disgusting to see, even by my standards” Lacey scowled, seeing Rex devour more food than one person should be able to. “I was hungry!” Rex protested, throwing his hands up in frustration. “A man must be fed to remain strong” Minet said, coming to sit opposite Rex, winking as she did. “What do you want?” Lacey scowled. “I was informed, by an anonymous source of course, that an expedition is to take place, very soon” she replied, casually, leaning onto the table propping her head in her hands, elbows on the table, staring at Rex. “First I’m hearing of this!” Lacey snapped. “That doesn’t surprise me gorgeous” Minet replied, smiling at Lacey, “So what or whom does the great prince Rex seek I wonder?’ she asked, turning her gaze back to Rex. “I’m sure that’s his business, not yours” Lacey interjected, Rex could tell she was getting irritated quickly with Minet’s pre