"How did you come about this?" Arthur asked his daughter as she sat on one of the beds in the large guest room.
The knight retired early, allowing his wife and son to stay out and seek late night dessert, but when he found his daughter guarding the hallways, he gestured to Sir Gunnar that he was taking her. The older knight understood and merely nodded as Irene was pulled into the guest room a bit more roughly than she liked to be handled.
Now he and his daughter were in their guest room and she looked guilty as she avoided his gaze from where she sat on her bed.
"In the Duke's Tower, no one was willing to dance with the Princess when all the tables were moved upon her request," Irene admitted. "I tried to get Leif to come out with us but when he wouldn't, Her Highness still caught me and forced me to come out with her. She said today it's because I'm the only one who isn't afraid of her."
