@princetaled location: the forest of the kingdom
with the festivities (in his name) finished & most of the guests having returned home to their own kingdoms or ...wherever else people had come from to celebrate with them. he was relieved, truly. finding out he was a prince & that he'd been cursed when he was an infant had been difficult enough, then the curse actually took root & now he just really struggled with ...everything. who was he? had everything been a lie? no, right? maybe he just needed more time to find out. yeah. he'd been a prince for what? a week? that definitely wasn't enough to find out just ... who he was now, in this new life. did he even have to be someone else? couldn't he ... just be him? wasn't that enough?
he really needed to get out for a little while, so he'd announced he needed a pair of horses & his ...fiancé. when he found out the man he had been promised to upon birth was actually the man he met in his dreams, it was safe to say he was relieved & overjoyed. to hear he was the one who saved him? well, he was back to being overjoyed. they hadn't really had time to talk, so ... ari planned a little trip. he was already sitting on his horse, waiting for his prince & hoping that his messenger succeeded in luring phillip towards him. when he did see him approach, a pair of noisy birds accompanying him, ari smiled brightly. "ride out with me!"
yes, there was some worry that …he'd say no. that he'd tell him he had more important things to do & ari wouldn't blame him for it, but he hoped that this wasn't the case. he …really wanted this. he wanted to rekindle what they had before he fell asleep & build on it, expand it… let it blossom. “please?”











