Chapter 225: Confusion
With the squirrel scurrying off and Elys done cursing, Aleksander sneaked in a tiny scoff. He could tell that his wife had just thought a squirrel was some enemy hiding in the bush, her heartbeat slightly raising for a few seconds there.
Elys didn’t appreciate her husband laughing at her.
Her eyes squinted in displeasure as she slowly opened her mouth and uttered a threat to her husband, "Shut up, vampire."
Aleksander sighed as he knew Elys was truly mad at him when she would begin to call him ’vampire’ with all the loathness she reserved for his kind in general.
The young king raised his hands in mock defeat, waving a tiny leaf as if it was a white flag of surrender. Elys’ scowl slowly vanished, and a tiny laugh escaped her mouth. She and Aleksander shared a moment to appreciate the absurdity of her cursing at a squirrel.
Eventually, the tiny moment of laughter had to end, but instead of a lighthearted mood and a smile after a good laugh, Aleksander saw his wife changed to a serious expression immediately.
"Come on now, husband," Elys said as she waved him to the direction she was headed, "we don’t have all day to let these people make a mess of the kingdom."
"Of our kingdom," Aleksander corrected her, raising an indignant finger paired with a raised brow.
"Our kingdom," Elys repeated, "I like how that sounds."
A smile spread across the couple’s face and Elys turned sharply about. Aleksander followed suit as she took calculated steps towards the original direction of the last explosion.
There was a considerable silence between the two of them as they waded deeper into the forest, the dense foliage growing higher than their waists. A point came that the plants grew as high as Elys’ head, and Aleksander could hardly see her head poke from the sea of greenery.