"Your Majesty, do not worry, it is not fully cooked yet." Sally suddenly said as she glared at the two beside her. "But they are very close to it. You can say the meat has been placed on the plate. It is just waiting to be swallowed."
Sally was trying to be subtle with how she spoke but this only caused Alice to laugh even harder and Vance's lips to twitch. He did not know why but every time he opened his mouth to speak to the king he always ended up saying something strange. But now Sally was not making things any better.
"Okay! Enough!" The king yelled out. His face looked quite sour at this point as he glared at Sally and Vance. "I understand you have a deeper relationship with my daughter than I had thought. But, since you have not fully crossed the line, this still enables her to be married to someone else of proper stature. So let me ask you. Will you be willing to leave my daughter if I gave you a million gold, a fief, and a noble title?"
