"My Lord. The guests have left safely. Would you like to rest now?"
Lord Rupert Minney looked up from his recliner at the servant, his tired eyes briefly narrowed in consideration before he shook his head. "Not yet."
"But Master, you've been up all day... Your body is...", the servant tried to protest, but was interrupted.
"Dying! I know. You don't need to remind me," he snapped, his voice cutting through the room's quiet air. But almost as soon as the words left his mouth, the old man sighed, the frustration giving way to a softer tone. "I am the happiest today."
The servant eyed his master curiously. "Is it because Prince Kael brought someone to meet you? I know you've been worried about him, even if you don't always show it." Of course he'd already guessed it. Usually, by the time lunch rolled around, his master barely had energy to finish his own food.But today, he looked like his old self.
