"No. No. We are not doing this right now," Laz responded, taking a deep breath and turning away.
While Ivana seemed a bit hurt at his statement for whatever reason, the mother tree just started laughing as a green dress seemed to manifest over her young and yet weirdly proportioned body.
"Ah. It's so nice to be young. Look at him all flustered and such. Any of the nobles or their sons would love nothing more than to be the first to plow the fields of my wonderful caretakers and yet here you are rejecting the number one on the list of greatest beauties of the kingdom. To be fair though, I guess it just depends on the year and wants. After all, the queen has been number one many times as well. The difference is that everyone kind of knows what she looks like, at least more so than this child here."
"Mother... I..."
