Things had yet to settle down since the ball, he finds himself now tending to another small arm wound from his most recent giant spider encounter, nothing serious, it looked worse than it actually was; a superficial gash if you will. He’d just finished cleaning it and wrapping it up himself, he didn’t want to bother the sweet nurse as he had before when it hadn’t been anything serious. Still in the back of his mind he has to worry if those disgusting things carried any kind of diseases, he knew not much on spiders except for he hated them and that he thought the whole forest ought to be burned down with the lot of them...
Even as a child he could recall occasionally being teased by his friends because of how sketched out the eight legged creatures tended to make him, it didn’t matter the size of them either. They would be proud of him now though, he thinks. He hadn’t even flinched once when he’d went back to help Cesar!
As he sits there he muses on his old friends, many of them lost to the winds of time and scattered, his adult life had been a lonely one, even more so when it had always been easy to look down on his profession. He was as legit as they came now though, part of him almost wished he could of rubbed it in everyone’s face that ever had a distaste for his family or himself. Levi was someone now. Someone his queen had needed, someone his current friends had needed, someone he hoped one day that a wife might need (although he thinks his job might make him for a terrible husband seeing as he’s always gone).
His eyes scan down the hall upon hearing the footsteps of another, he goes to rise, there was no telling what kind of royalty might have been walking around here and he didn’t want to be rude just in case. As if fate would have it he can’t believe who he’s seeing though; he squints his eyes before rubbing at them almost childishly. “Matt—?!” Levi utters out as if it had been an old instinct he regretted almost instantly, he visibly winces when the name comes out his mouth. He should have turned heel and left the moment he’d spotted him but he didn’t out of some sense of nostalgia due to reminiscing about old friends...and those that had once looked down on him. Matt fell into both of these categories thanks to his father.
Things really wouldn’t settle down for even five minutes for Levi would they?