Nik was right. He had taken them for the best ice cream she'd ever had. That wasn't saying much seeing as she got ice cream once a year at most and always generic store-bought but the icy treat was truly heavenly. She'd almost forgotten about the King's statue and Nik's promise to tell her the story but Nik certainly didn't. Luckily, Dexland getting a plain dish of vanilla had enraged Kenzie so much, that she'd picked a fight with him, lecturing him about proper Ice cream etiquette. The chaos had allowed her to slip away with Nik without anyone noticing. Nik led her to the fountain in the square, the one she'd seen yesterday. Had it only been yesterday? It felt like it'd been forever since then. As the two sat at the fountain, Fable looked at him expectantly. “So the first king."

