Their carriage slowed down as they entered the capital. Serena woke up hearing the noise coming from outside. She slowly detracted herself from Leonard as she shyly glanced at him. Leonard, with his arm free immediately crossed them in front of his chest and closed his eyes to avoid any awkwardness. Serena wanted to speak, but....
'what if I have bad breath? I just woke up...' Serena thought as she opened her silk purse. She took a small tin can containing peppermint rock candies and ate one. 'hmm... certainly I'm not the only one with stale saliva. Perhaps I should feed him one...' Stopping herself from grinning because of her naughty thoughts, she held one candy with her fingers daintily and hovered it in front of Leonard's face.
"Brother Leonard... Say ah..." She said flirtatiously.
