Philip shook his head. “Yeah, we might. I was more like… athletic I guess. I liked getting lost in the woods and not wearing shoes or being proper in any way. Not ‘wild’ like having sex and doing drugs.” He shrugged. “The problem is most princes, even number twos or whatever, are promised at a pretty early age, and I was, too. Even if I had a fan club, I couldn’t have done that and honored the alliance or whatever.” When he put it that way, it sounded stupid and it undercut so much of what he and Aurora had actually shared before she died. He let the implication stand that it was in the past, that it maybe hadn’t followed him to Fableton, and moved on.
He nodded. “Yeah, maybe. I mean, we had instructors on some subjects, and I always found them boring. Now I’m at the university and I’m taking pretty heavy schooling. It’s not boring now. But this kind of work didn’t exist.”
Once he’d returned, he listened to her requests and the details involved, and then nodded as he thought. “Yeah, that sounds good. To be fair, you look strong enough for something medium sized,” he pointed out. “But an apartment limits things. Come this way.”
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“I take it you were expected to be more proper and do more gentlemanly things than just manly things, huh?” she mused. She supposed that made sense. “I never did drugs, but I did have very sticky fingers,” she admitted, brushing her hair out of her face. She’d been wild too, just in a different way. Closer to the way he’d said he wasn’t, but El Dorado was a bit more of a free world than the one he seemed to have come from. “So even if you had met someone you fell in love with, you wouldn’t have been able to be with her? What if the girl you were promised to sucked?” she wondered, shaking her head in disbelief. She’d heard of people who married for alliances like that, but she knew plenty more who married for love. She had never been interested in marrying, but if she did, she would want it to be her choice.
“At least here, you have more freedom in that sense. You know, if you were interested in that sort of thing,” she pointed out with a small smile. “You’re at FU? What are you studying?” she wondered. Sometimes she considered doing the whole college thing herself, but she had no idea what she would even go for. Besides, she had a pretty sweet gig at Tiana’s, and anything worth learning could be learned from the woman herself, in Chel’s opinion. “I’ll take your word for it. I just know a dog as big as her probably wouldn’t work in my place,” she nodded. “Who’s next?”
