snips, snails and puppy dog tails
Stray rays reflected off the Glass Slipper’s sign, causing a certain hooded boy to duck his head even more than usual. Hidden features twisted in silent consternation at the bustling lanes of Books End. If Cardinal considered the halls of Ever After High a danger, then the village could account for three times as much. Fingertips began to worry at the frayed ends of his hood’s ties while keeping a careful watch on everything around the pair of students.
It wasn’t that he didn’t trust or want to be around Zeke. The prince was a decent sort and having harbored rebellious intent in the past, someone he’d spoken to more at length than most. Insides twisted with the familiar nagging feeling of worry and self-doubt, caustic bile threatening each vital organ, however. “I’m not opposed to exercise, you know, but are we actually going somewhere?”
Shooting a sidelong glance the other’s way, he buried a minuscule huff in his shoulder and shook off encroaching nerves. Giving himself over to trying the social life again, canines sparkled in a bright grin. “Oh, I know! There’s a Shepard’s pie special at the Tea Shoppe and you had to share it with your very favorite upstart picnic basket specializing culinarian.”