"Ready?" "As I'll ever be." Kaida smiled up at her prince, earning her a beautiful display of Uther's pearly whites "But I don't promise to be nice." She said with a pout, knowing beyond those doors to Skarlax lay some of the most insufferable souls that she'd rather not deal with. "I can cut out their tongues for you if you like." Kaida hoped his statement was a joke but the darkness in Uther's eyes said otherwise. He meant it and she knew it would only take a word from her for him to do just that. "You will do no such thing, your highness." She sighed, even though deep down she loved the fact that he would stand by her side. "I'd hate for you to get blood on a perfectly put together attire." She ran her hands over his torso, tracing the embroidered head of a dragon sewn over his tigh

