Lexi put the cooking pot and the cooking utensils in her dimension storage. Mantas cast the light spell. A purple orb floats in Mantas's hands. It floats to Amor's shoulder and stays there even when he moves. A white light is produced from it despite the purple color of it.

Amor disappears into the woods, with a big happy smile on his face. Lexi and Mantas go into the carriage with the freyjas following them in.

“You hadn't answered why we were rushing out so quickly.” She crossed her arms and tried to look as serious as she could. As much as someone could with a massive black and white house cat trying to get their attention by standing his front paws on their lap and rubbing against them.

He stays quiet. He knows he has to tell her and Amor. “I had locked the king and his son in the bathroom. I used a spell to paralyze them for an hour.”

“What!” She yells. She would stand up but Muffin is preventing her from doing so. “Wouldn't you be wanted and a bounty be placed on you for doing that?” She and Amor will be accomplices just by being with him. She is petting the freyja that is half lying on her lap and half on Manta's lap. The other is taking up the whole seat across from them. Mantas don't care about petting the felines.

“Yes. But it might only be me. They will be locked in the bathroom for a while. It's King Richard's private bathroom. No one is allowed to use it.” The king had him set an alarm for it to go off if someone sat on the toilet. He is the only one to use it.

“Richard! That's his name!” She laughs loudly at hearing that. She thinks that is way too fitting, given how he acts.

“I know. His name is very fitting for a man like him.” He smirks. Due to the way the king acts like, he almost called him by the nickname of the name.

“Back to the subject. I had told the groom of the stool to take a break for a while. I had used a spell on the door. Like the one I used on my door. They have to break it down. It had given us an extra hour or more.” They have to be careful not to hurt either the king or prince. Anyone that harms them, even trying to help them, Will be jailed or put to death.

“Groom of the stool? What is that?” She hadn't heard of that before. She is thinking it has to do with stools.

He is thinking of how to say it politely. “A groom of the stool. Take care of the king.” He pauses, as if to think of the right wording. “In his bathroom.”

She looks at him like he is crazy. “Like a royal butt wiper?” She asks to make sure that is correct.

“Yes. He does a little more. But in a sense. That is what he does.” He doesn't know how the groom of the stool could do something like that. Even the thought of doing something like that is disgusting to him. He doesn't even want to be in a room with the king, no matter the amount of people in it.

Turning back to the subject once again. “If we keep up with the pace. We might reach the next town before lunch. If they don't stop before that.” He looks to the freyjas with a glare. They better not stop before that. “They will have a hard time catching up with us even now. But days later, some places might have wanted posters of me.” They can outdo the kingdom's knights' horses in a few hours.

“Ok. Next thing. How much should Amor know about my skill?” She thinks that be the last thing to ask about.

“Since he will be traveling with us for a while. All of it. He can cook too. He can make meals as good as we had for dinner.” He had eaten a few things that Amor had cooked, even without salt or many spices. They were good meals.

She thinks Amor sounds like a good husband to have. He is nice and is cute and handsome. If his cooking is as good as Mantas said, she wants to try his cooking. She will show him her online shopping skill and let him try out making a dish based on ingredients from her world.

“The dinner we had were normal cheap things brought from my world.” She shows him the soup can from her dimension storage.

He takes it from her and looks at it. He wipes some of the liquid from the can to taste it. “What?” He wonders how food is cheaply produced in her world. A world that has all the ingredients for a single meal in a can, that even has meat in it. Meat being costly in this world, it baffles him.

Amor returns from the woods, with an armful of firewood. They will be sleeping in the back area, he put the firewood in the seating area. Night had fallen by that time. “We should go to sleep now.”

“Yeah.” She nods. She and Mantas come out of the seating area and into the back. Amor joins them. He had to hench over a lot due to his height. Mantas and Lexi hench over too, but not as much as Amor. They are close to equal in height. Mantas is slightly shorter than the average man's height.

Amor lays down against the left part of the wall. “Mantas can lay next to me. Lexi can have more space.” With her being a lady, he wants her to be more comfortable.

Mantas does so, but not wanting to lay right next to Amor., he lays in the middle of the space between where the two will lay.

Lexi lies down to the right of the wall of the carriage. Muffin joined her and lay on her. “I guess I don't need a blanket.” She laughs. Amor laughs at that too. Biscuit lying next to him and cuddling up to him. Armor uses his knapsack as a lumpy pillow.

Mantas doesn't care if he doesn't have one to keep him warm or company. He is used to being alone. He grabs his pillow and blanket from his dimension storage. He goes to sleep right away.

The other two pets the soft fur of the big felines until they fall asleep to the purring. The freyjas fell asleep when purring. Their purrs sound like car engines due to how loud they are.

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Author's note.

Groom of the stool was a real role a person would have. It's to make sure the royal was healthy though the stool of the royal.