The Royals drank late into the night, and eventually needed the maids to help them back to their own bedrooms in the outlying courtyards.
Dominic had suggested that they just stay in the guest rooms here in the Manor, but when the officers came looking for them in the morning, there would be panic if they weren't in their own rooms. Plus, they would wake everyone in the house up, searching for their Princes.
Not that Dominic got to sleep in, even with them gone.
The veiled maids came to rouse him right at dawn, and the smell of cooking breakfast kept him from going back to sleep. There was just something about the smell of frying eggs that resonated with his brain and told him that sleep time was over.
Pops, Mead and Guild Master Stone of the Adventurer's Guild were already at the table when he arrived, but they were the first.
"Oh, the full smithy team is here now. Good morning, Lord Dominic." Stone greeted him as Dominic flopped into his chair.
