Book 3: Chapter 19
“Your highness, I had no idea you were so skilled at grilling meat.”
Lucia ate her grilled meat as she gave her praise. Well, without a barbeque, you’ll get juicy meat no matter how I grill it. I just can’t chargrill meat. My grilling skills were honed when I went to barbeques with my classmates. The only thing that could comfort us on lonely nights was beer and grilled meat, but I’m still not sure if it was lamb or not.
We just tore off one leg of the rabbit, and that was enough for both of us. I wondered how the grilled rabbit store always hung several pieces of meat every day. I thought they killed tens of rabbits a day, but just one leg is enough.
Without a barbeque, I skewered the meat on Lucia’s arrow. I tried used a tree branch, but when I bit down, my mouth was filled with the plant-juices. After confirming that Lucia’s arrow didn’t have venom on it, I used her arrow since it was the closest thing to a skewer.
It’s a given I cut the arrowhead off. Lucia didn’t seem to care about me wasting an arrow of hers. She said that you could only use one arrow to kill a white deer king as it would’ve fled by the time you grabbed your second arrow, and hence, bringing so many arrows was pointless.
Lucia finished another serve and then licked the oil off the corner of her mouth and wiped her hands with the fur of the rabbit before finally sitting to one side satisfied. I threw the left over bones to one side and then sat by Lucia’s side and held her hand. Lucia revealed a smile, leaned onto my shoulder, and looked up to the sky.
I rarely stargazed in the past. If the night sky was not so beautiful and captivating, I probably wouldn’t have looked up at the sky. Lucia and I interlocked our fingers as we looked at the sky full of stars. The wind blew Lucia’s hair into my face. The faint fragrance surrounded me. She raised her head to look at the sky full of stars with her eyes full of spirit and said: “It’s so beautiful.”
“Yeah.”
I looked at the bright Milky Way and sighed.