Rodric had been standing in the garden for a while now, he didn't really know what he was doing here, at least not yet, his room hadn't given him the comfort he had hoped for and he certainly wasn't going to approach his mum for some sort of conversational comfort, his father would be there and he could as well give up any thoughts of having any sort of peace with him in the room, he tired of the old man's disturbance of his life, the constant push towards the princess his father always facilitated.
He knew there were ulterior motives behind his father's request and that he needed to align with his father's motives in order to enjoy any sort of reprieve from the man, but it irked him quite a lot as he was sure his insistence on any form of courtship with the princess would result in a per
