(For starters, my sincerest apologies about my....tardiness [may be the nicest way to put it]. Hope all is well in your respectives AORs)
Official Unicorn Caretaker. "Sweet, Dad" thought Henry. "Awesome 18th birthday present."
It wasn't that Henry didn't want some form of responsibility. After all, he was 18 and an adult now. But his mother wasn't so keen on him signing up to attend the kingdom's military academy, where he could at least hide his lack of puberty behind a uniform. Much less would she approve of him doing the stereotypical graduates' tour through the kingdom, meeting interesting people. More importantly, meeting interesting girls. No, not girls...women. For he was an adult now, and a man. A man with responsibility.
Or so Henry wanted people to believe. But people only really look at you as a man if you think you are a man, and Henry had some issues getting over what he saw in the mirror. The constant acne, complete lack of facial hair and scrawny muscles that not even the trainers' charms could improve did nothing for his self confidence.
And then there was the biggest pitfall of them all, the one obstacle in his way: He was the official caretaker of a grand total of ZERO unicorns.
It's hard to get people to take you seriously when your title is a joke (the king thought it was hilarious, as did all of Henry's brothers).
Henry wasn't going to let this deter him though, and he was damned if he was going to miss meeting some interesting....people. He was going to go looking for unicorns.
So he packed up his travel pack, convinced his best friend he wanted to go, charmed his mother into reluctantly agreeing to let him go without his usual entourage of 20, and started walking. Where to, he wasn't really sure. But walk he would until he had looked in every corner of the kingdom, or found the unicorns he was being held responsible for.
Official Unicorn Caretaker. "Sweet, Dad" thought Henry. "Awesome 18th birthday present."
It wasn't that Henry didn't want some form of responsibility. After all, he was 18 and an adult now. But his mother wasn't so keen on him signing up to attend the kingdom's military academy, where he could at least hide his lack of puberty behind a uniform. Much less would she approve of him doing the stereotypical graduates' tour through the kingdom, meeting interesting people. More importantly, meeting interesting girls. No, not girls...women. For he was an adult now, and a man. A man with responsibility.
Or so Henry wanted people to believe. But people only really look at you as a man if you think you are a man, and Henry had some issues getting over what he saw in the mirror. The constant acne, complete lack of facial hair and scrawny muscles that not even the trainers' charms could improve did nothing for his self confidence.
And then there was the biggest pitfall of them all, the one obstacle in his way: He was the official caretaker of a grand total of ZERO unicorns.
It's hard to get people to take you seriously when your title is a joke (the king thought it was hilarious, as did all of Henry's brothers).
Henry wasn't going to let this deter him though, and he was damned if he was going to miss meeting some interesting....people. He was going to go looking for unicorns.
So he packed up his travel pack, convinced his best friend he wanted to go, charmed his mother into reluctantly agreeing to let him go without his usual entourage of 20, and started walking. Where to, he wasn't really sure. But walk he would until he had looked in every corner of the kingdom, or found the unicorns he was being held responsible for.
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