Chapter 68: A fair and legal contract
Cass thought that he was doing a great job. Tyler, who had been nervous, and clearly upset, had become attached to the hip with him. While he wasn’t one for most kids, for some reason, he really liked Tyler.
While the director had said that he was rather rambunctious, Cass could tell he was more muted because of the accident when he’d seen his life flash before his eyes. Anyone would be, given what he’d gone through. The only reason Cass was doing okay was, unfortunately, because of Draken.
He’d helped him quite a bit, even if he was seething from leaving Cass to deal with the kids before they had been satiated like the demon spawn that they were. But Tyler was different.
The poor guy seemed to need some comfort, and it appeared that Cass was the only one who could give it. The little guy was like a leech at his side, holding onto the baggier part of Cass’ shirt that he’d borrowed from Draken, but not tugging enough that it came out from his pants.
Sam was shocked to notice the little leech he had, and so was Sir Forsythe. The man had worked up enough balls to approach him. Cass had given him a look, and he at least had the presence of mind to look like a guilty puppy. That didn’t mean he was going to get off for his behaviour, but he at least knew that he’d done something wrong.
Sam, surprisingly, treated Tyler completely normally. It was surprising because Cass noticed that Sam, who didn’t treat any of the adults differently besides Lady Ava, did give some preferential treatment to some of the kids. Tyler was one of them. The other 4 were so innocuous that Cass had no idea what was different about them besides the fact that he’d felt a little bit of a draw towards them.
It was the same kind of twinge he’d felt when he realised that Ser Hune was a fairy, but it wasn’t quite...the same? The kids all looked like normal humans too, so Cass wasn’t sure what made them different.
Either way, he’d just noticed as they had stuck around to play with the kids that Sam was behaving this way. Sometimes he’d help one of them up before another kid, or give them an extra head pat. Cass didn’t think it was anything...strange, but he did wonder where it stemmed from.
Tyler, however, remained glued to Cass even when the other kids started to play with the new toys. He had picked out a toy after Cass had taken him over to have a look at them. It was a soft looking dragon stuffy. It was dark red with orange eyes, and it made Cass scowl. He couldn’t be upset.
It was just a dragon stuffy, and he was a kid. He had no idea that Draken was a dragon, and that he had red scales like the stuffy. Or that the stuffy was modeled after him. Draken rarely revealed how big of a deal he was, and that was just something that Cass had to deal with.
Even if Cass hated that Tyler’s eyes sparkled as he looked at the stuffy, and he could see Draken in the background looking smug as hell. When he was sure no kids were looking, Cass gave the man the middle finger and he could hear Draken’s boom of laughter across the large dirt clearing.