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was resourceful. She would think of some way to spend time with him.
    The next day, Crystal woke in time to eat breakfast with him in the morning. They didn’t speak of much—as it turned out, Gerralt was about as far from being a morning person as possible—but it was a decent start.
    From there, she followed him to his meeting with his council, and while she couldn’t speak with him there, she could listen as they all debated what supplies and soldiers needed to go where, which locations were lost causes, and what areas needed to be better fortified.
    It was fascinating, in an odd sort of way, though Crystal had always been more oriented towards literature and language, and she suspected that would always be the case.
    Next was lunch, and at last Crystal got the chance to actually speak with him.
    “You seem very intent on following me all over the place today,” Gerralt commented.
    Crystal shrugged. “Do you mind?” she asked, though she was reasonably sure she knew the answer. He was a king, after all. She was pretty sure it wouldn’t be much of a hardship for him to get her to stop.
    “I don’t,” he confirmed. “It’s just a bit unusual.”
    “I had this glorious idea,” she replied. “’How about I actually get to know you? What a novel concept!’”
    He snorted. “Well, it is a bit overdue, perhaps.”
    “I don’t know how I got so distracted,” Crystal drawled, “between the kidnapping and the brain tumor.”
    For a moment, Gerralt looked almost contrite. But when his mouth parted around what Crystal suspected was an apology, Crystal held up one hand and cut him off.
    “Save it,” she replied. “Ancient history.”
    Everything was already so complicated. She didn’t know if she wanted to go home or not, but she did know that if he apologized and made it seem like he was willing to take her home, she would take that option purely for the sense of normalcy.
    So she was just…making life less complicated and removing the option entirely. Perhaps not the most rational solution, but it was the one she was going with.
    If Gerralt found her reaction strange, he didn’t say anything about it. He simply nodded his head once and resumed eating.
    Relieved, Crystal resumed eating her lunch. Everything was already complicated enough. She wasn’t really in the mood to add talking about her feelings on top of it. Besides, that seemed more like Mellia’s job.
     
    After lunch, it was almost immediately time for the afternoon break, where the entire castle more or less shut down. Gerralt and Crystal wandered the maze in the courtyard for a time before they came to a halt in the garden with the tent.
    After some rather mild coaxing from Crystal, Gerralt shoved his pants down, Crystal hiked her skirt up, and they rather thoroughly enjoyed the break on the couch. With Gerralt leaning over her and Crystal’s legs over his shoulders, the close, hot air felt even hotter, and each breath felt as if it was scorching her lungs, but she could think of nothing to complain about in the way he pressed her back into the couch and pounded into her.
    Afterwards, they had to press together tightly in order to both fit. It was a little uncomfortable with the heat, but it was…nice.
     
    With the end of the afternoon rest came more meetings, and Crystal again sat and listened in. If she was apparently going to be queen, she should probably know all of it, anyway.
    It didn’t occur to her until halfway through the meeting that the idea of being queen no longer horrified her. Once that realization struck her, she couldn’t help but catch Gerralt’s eye and grin. He offered her a smile in return, his sentence faltering in the middle so mildly that it was hardly even noticeable.
    The idea still made her nervous, of course, but for different reasons. She had never really been in charge of anything more intimidating than a bar or a troop or Girl Scouts, after all. But just thinking about it no longer sent her into a