not you again location. courtyard hall, heart’s palace @jiahcwn
yurye is - once again - wandering the heart’s palace without his private knight. he’s sure that the amount of stress his knight has been shouldering dealing with him recently has been through the roof. if yurye’s not able to convince them to leave so that he can attempt finding princess eunae alone, then he orders them to do a mediocre task that will make sure to take their time. such as the one he had just sent them to do, instructing that they help identify a long list of books that yurye was looking to collect copies for his personal library back home.
of course, it’s only when he’s present in secure places like the palaces and only when he’s familiar with his surroundings. there’s no way yurye would ever put his private knight’s title in jeopardy. and they both know that should anything, yurye is more than capable enough to hold his own ground in the face of danger, with or without a weapon.
this is a strong belief yurye holds and he knows his private knight trusts him just as much as he does. why else would his knight abide by his requests? (not considering the few times yurye will raise the playful threat of ‘are you defying my orders?’ to get his way when he absolutely needs it).
so, it comes as a big surprise and shock to yurye when he’s walking down the open courtyard hall, admiring the small interior garden and he suddenly hears a pair of footsteps rushing towards him from behind. his first thoughts are that a palace maid is late on finishing a task, running to get to where she needs to before being reprimanded. however, before he turn around to see what the situation is, he’s knocked down straight into the ground.
it takes everything in yurye to hold back the string of curse words threatening to fall from his lips as he tries to reorient his mind while laying there on the ground in pain.
what the fuck was going on? who in their right mind would have the audacity to attack a prince of his rank on palace grounds in broad daylight?
yurye lets out a loud groan to express his ache before easily shoving the body holding him down, off of him.
“who do you think you are to attack a prince-” he begins to question his perpetrator before his eyes fall on the face of the irritating, one and only, private knight of princess eunae. royal knight kwon jiah.
“why is it always you?” yurye interrupts himself with another loud groan before grimacing at the fact that he now had to deal with jiah.