Chapter 6
The “Delicious Odeon”
Octavian, whom Uncia was longing to find, was far from the Native Island, in one of the European port cities where he ended up, literally, thanks to the Guardian Council's mercy. And here’s what happened: when he and the princess were tasting the rainbow, one of its ends stuck to his cheek and the other stayed in the corner of his new girlfriend’s mouth. When he returned to the kitchen, all the cooks immediately gathered round and started examining the iridescent shine oozing right out of his skin. And since it was the kitchen responsible for the senior guardians' meals, the food, left unobserved on the stoves, got overcooked, depriving all the important persons of their supper.
At first, they wanted to throw the boy off a cliff to man-eating sharks as it
