yes but royalty!octavius and stablehand!jedediah who's the absolute best with horses, like it's ridiculous, and octavius who comes hide with the horses when royal life gets too much because the animals calm him down
and jedediah boiling inside on the sidelines when lancelot wins the knights tournament and gives a flower to octavius like in the old stories bdhdjsjshdhdh
octavius coming to see him after the tournament and jed is furiously taking care of the horses and not looking at octavius and throwing : "shouldn't ya be with your knight ?" above his shoulder like it's a swear word
which gets octavius confused for exactly 2 seconds because then jedediah keeps running his mouth because the day he stops talking is the day he stops breathing, and he goes on about how lancelot only won because jed was the one to train that horse, really, she's an amazing horse and he doubts that that good for nothing googly eyed knight would have stood any chance without her, so really jed is the true winner of the tournament, but does anyone think about him ? about the work he does ? noooo, yall high and mighty fancy pants types only ride the horses, never even think about all the work and care and training that goes into all of it, no one ever thanks ol' jedediah and-
and really through all of his monologue octavius has to bite his tongue not to laugh because, oh gods, jed is jealous like a 3 year old who just got eclipsed in his mom's heart by his newborn sibling, and it's insanely ridiculous but also extremely endearing, and jed does deserve more recognition, but he really can't let him go on like this. especially not when he knows exactly the right thing to say to send jedediah in such a frenzy that maybe, hopefully, he'll get fucked silly in the hay, or at the very least kissed senseless until he can't remember which one of them is royalty
so, smooth smooth octavius, trying not to smile triumphantly, trying very hard to look like he's just stating a fact, interrupts by saying : "really ? why don't you claim your prize then ?"
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