Chapter 165: Book 2 Chapter 30

Fritz

 

"Will you be careful?" Peyo looked at Emmie with wide eyes. "Nothing will happen to you? Emmie?" The boy clung to the wolf girl's hands. Emmie seemed amused.

"Of course not. I'm a big girl. I can take care of myself!" She grinned. "I am a big, strong, and independent wolf."

Fritz listened to the conversation of the two teenagers while they waited for their carriage. The drive to the university would only take half an hour. The delivery of the letter should go quite quickly, so Fritz planned to show his new family member the small town he called home. Unlike the castle.

Emmie was still trying to calm the slightly panicked Peyo. But the boy just shook his head and tried to persuade Emmie to stay.

When the carriage finally arrived, however, Emmie got in very skeptically. Fritz followed her and soon afterward the carriage started moving.

"There is a password", he said quietly. "It's important that you know it."

"What?" Emmie looked at him confused.

"When we meet my contact, we will introduce ourselves with a password. Only with the correct answer, I will pass on the message. So please don't be surprised if I start the conversation strangely. That would seem dubious."

"Okay... Then I won't be surprised", Emmie muttered and looked out the window. Fritz watched her with a smile. He already saw the two teenagers as a part of his little family. They were now his children. Above all, Paula liked the quiet and shy Peyo. Emmie usually avoided her, kept to herself, and growled at the staff when they unintentionally surprised her.

When they arrived at the university, Fritz instructed the coachman to wait for them. The building was large, colorfully painted, and partly overgrown with ivy. He led Emmie down the corridors of the university to the back garden. An inconspicuous, still very young teacher was waiting there. Fritz wasn't sure if it was the right person, after all, he was originally supposed to meet him in his office. However, Hany had informed Fritz in a letter about the sudden change of plan. Paula's friend had described the teacher as plump with circular hair loss and a face like an eggplant. The description seemed to fit this young man. Fritz didn’t know, why the plan was changed.

The man looked at Fritz questioningly.

Fritz smiled. "Hello, I forgot to wash my socks. Forgive the smell."

Emmie snickered softly.

The teacher smiled as well. "I have fresh socks in the drawer. You have something for me?"

Fritz nodded and handed him the letter. "We'll leave then."

"Get home safely. But..." The teacher looked at Emmie skeptically. "You have a servant?"

Emmie growled softly and showed her teeth, causing the man with a face like an eggplant to take a step back.

"It was neither my choice nor hers. The girl is part of the family now. Not a slave. It's complicated. Forgive her, please. She hasn't been with me long and she experienced a lot of bad things" Fritz looked at Emmie and shook his head. The girl snorted.

"Aha. See you then, I guess." The young man turned and walked away.

"That's it?", asked Emmie.

"Sure. But I still have something else in mind."

"And what?" She squinted her eyes and showed her teeth again.

"Shopping!" He winked at her. "No need to be so upset or threaten me, child. Please, don't do that."

Emmie raised her eyebrows and followed him back to the carriage with her usual skeptical expression. The coachman drove them to the shopping street of the city and waited for them again. This time in a side street. Emmie followed Fritz through the narrow street with the many small shops. She sniffed the air cautiously and looked around restlessly as if expecting a trap.

"And if someone recognizes you? Or attacks?", she finally asked. "Can a prince go shopping just like that? Without guards?"

"Recognize? Probably. Attack? Probably not. A large part of the shopkeepers belong to the rebellion. And I'm better known here as a benefactor than the son of a tyrant."

"Benefactor?"

"I try to help the poor and sick wherever I can. I am currently renovating the slum. Right now, I finance a small clinic that does not demand any money from the poor for medical services or medicines. It's not much, but I'm trying to help." They stopped in front of a shop full of books, toys, and simple jewelry and decorations. "Shall we?"

"What exactly?", asked Emmie.

"Looking for stuff for you and Peyo. Something you both like."

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"Oh." Emmie looked at him in surprise. "Really?"

"Of course! So. Just look around. I should have enough with me to buy the entire store!", he whispered. The girl rolled her eyes, but for a brief moment, a smile appeared on her otherwise skeptical face.

Emmie hesitated at first. Fritz had expected nothing else, but in the end, they left the shop with two bags full of niceties. More books, stuffed animals, wooden figures, and some board games for her and Peyo. And finally, Emmie smiled at him.

"Thank you", she said quietly.

 

Peter

 

Peter leaned against Fiete. The two had made themselves comfortable in their room under a blanket. Fiete held Peter's hands in his. Since the kiss, Peter was a little more open to such intimacy. But Fiete had never tried to kiss him again. Peter was grateful for that. He didn't know if he liked it. But no doubt he didn't not- like it.

The whole thing confused him.

"Do you think we'll go a step further at some point?", asked Fiete quietly.

"What?" Taken by surprise, he withdrew his hands from the dragon. Peter hadn't expected that. He was still busy with that one kiss... "Is that what you want?"

"Of course. Don't get me wrong, I don't want to persuade you to do anything. The kiss was... I liked it." He kissed Peter's hair.

„Hm.“

"Hm?", repeated Fiete. "Is that your answer? When I ask for more?"

"Yes. Pretty much. I'm not sure...", Peter replied. "I don't know where my limit is. But I know I don't need 'that'. Sitting here as we do now is enough for me."

"Ooooooooh! What a pity!", cried Josefine suddenly. Julia giggled. The two girls had sneaked to their room unnoticed and stood in front of it. "Come on, Peter! Think of Uncle Fiete's well-being! His cucumber could dry out!"

"Ah! A dry cucumber!", shouted Marko from next door. "The horror!"

"Maybe you just need to water it...", Finn thought with a laugh.

"Come on, Peter! Save my uncle!" Josefine laughed. "Water..."

"Fienchen!", protested Julia, laughing.

Peter and Fiete heard Julia pull the dragon girl away. She mumbled something about watered cucumbers and laughed loudly.

"Kiss!", shouted Marko. Finn laughed. "You can also kiss cu..."

"Marko!", scolded Julia, snickering.

"Cheeky kids." Peter sighed.

"But..." Fiete pulled Peter closer to him. "What do we do when the cucumber dries out?"

"Fiete!", protested Peter immediately. His cheeks turned red. "Not a word about cucumbers anymore! Please!"

"What a pity!", Marko commented loudly.

 

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