68- Leonidas

"Do you remember what you are supposed to say?"

"By the gods, you remind me of my Mother, which is even a mild sentence on its own because she never even fussed around me. I do remember, thank you very much, Daddy."

Orion sighed tiredly, his face looking like he was worried but defeat was the best course to follow as of now. "Alright."

After he had stayed in the Cabin for a while, he returned back to the Castle at night, finding Orion waiting for him, worried that he had been serious about joining the men in the field.

Which apparently he had been.

Leonidas adjusted the cloak over his head as he stared up at the starlit sky, snowflakes falling gently from it. "It is a wonderful night."

Orion did not seem to care. "Just so that we could be on the same page. The men do not know who you are, yes?"

"Yes," Leonidas replied, boredom in his speech.

He knew that none of the men there would possibly claim to have seen his face partly because whatever interactions he had with them, Orion did it