- An unknown amount of time later -

Uuuuugh where the fuck am I. everything is dark, so I try to tell albert to turn the lights on which all of a sudden sends a spark down the neural pathway that I burned into my brain. Which, sends greif rushing through my every motion.

I shudder and sob as I remember my faithful albert, loyal till the end. Unfortunately for me, though my grief tells my captors that I’m awake. Someone pulls a mask of some sort off of me. I don’t wince at the brightness because my pupils change near instantly to adapt to the light.

I look up and memorize the places of all the people in the room. I then start to read all their vitals and how healthy they are and I’m sad to say that they are all in tip top physical shape.

A man in front of me in what looks like royal garments starts talking and says to me “what the hell are you crying about. Is it about that weird dog you had, cause we can replace him”

I look at the man, wondering why he can go around assuming that I wouldn’t murder him for killing albert. Apparently, he could tell what I was thinking because he says to me “oh yes, and if your thinking you could just kill me and my men, well I’m sorry to say but we have archers around here that have a drug that was specially tailored for you so if your planning anything stop it.”

I consider my options, and while yes I do want vengeance for albert I know that attacking them right now would not be the best way of going about it, so I hide feelings and act like nothing happened, and i ask him “so what do you want me to do, and since you took such drastic measures I’m going to assume that it’s nothing small”

“Well you're right about that “wandering healer” we brought you here because our kingdoms princess, jasmine is in danger of dying. And while jasmine is probably not going to take the throne any time soon, she is on od aldsoothias most beloved royals. I mean gosh darn even I love her and I’m the third prince.”

Hmm well that changes a few things. I mean while I did expect that I would be expected to heal someone important I didn’t expect to be saving the most beloved princess in aldsoothia. Apparently princess jasmine gives to charity, go on many many many campaigns to help the poor, and she’s also really charming and pretty. So not only will I be fucked by the rich folk if I run, the commoners are gonna fuck me sideways if they found out I didn’t heal princess jasmine.

“So how are you planning on forcing me to heal princess jasmine?” I ask completely casually like I was asking how he was planning on making breakfast this morning.

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The prince gives me a weird look “I’m hoping that the rewards are good enough for you to do it willingly but if you don’t we’ll just keep you prisoner until you do”.

This man, he really truly must have thought this through. Well it seems that the only thing I can do is heal princess jasmine, that is until I have a better plan.

“well okay then guess I’m gonna heal a princess. Uh, when are we gonna get there” I ask. I also make my voice pretty jovial to distract from my previous bad attitude.

“Well we also have a bodyguard specially picked for, oh and she is trained on how to please a man so if you have any need to attend to…..” says the prince. He then points to a curvy women in the crowd.

Me I just frown a bit, because she’s probably a spy who is specially trained to get men to trust her through sex, which yeah is a thing, shocking I know. Of course she is also gonna relay everything I do the prince, so that is also a bumber.

I then ask as to how long it’s gonna take to get to the capital, where the princess is situated. The prince says about eight to nine days depending on the travel and the circumstances.

After getting me summarily adjusted they all take a rest for the night. Of course I have my bodyguard sleeping in my room to watch. I mean she says she’s there to protect me but I’m pretty sure they all know I can protect myself.

I am very deeply stressed and traumatized (I mean a group of armored warriors just barged into my life, killed my best friend, then asked me to heal a princess so I think I can safely say I Am both stressed and traumatized) and it’s sorta killing me to have the memory of alberts death at the slightest provocation. I burned it in so deep that the slightest thing sets me off, and then I have to relive the pain of seeing my best friend die as well as having the pain of being stabbed through the heart.

All of this leads me to look for an outlet for my frustrations, and since fucking the beautiful probably spy babe is outta the question cause she probably knows ways to endear herself in a man’s heart through doing it sooo.

I start just dicking around with life magic, cause that usually calms my nerves. I find a few bugs in my room and I start dicking around with their DNA. I start getting so into it that I forget my “bodyguard” was still in the room.

“What are you doing over there” she says to me. It looks like one of my experiments was in particularly loud and woke her up.

“Uh… nothing” forgetting myself and acting like an eight year caught with his hand in a cookie jar. “Uh, I mean I was just testing elixirs to heal princess jasmine”

Of course her being a spy, she gives me a look like she doesn’t buy it. “No, really what were you doing. If we’re gonna be living together for a while you’re gonna have to be honest with me” she says to me.

“I don’t have to tell you shit, you friend murdering asshole” I say to her back with such venom in my voice that miss “bodyguard” takes a step back.

“Are you talking about that dog, you know aldsoothia is known for having the best dog breeds in all the lands, so we could replace your dog” she says to me, she was even gonna talk more on how great aldsoothias dogs are but I give her a look of such intense hate that it shut’s her up

“I have spent 23 years with albert, he is, was my closest friend and you murdered him and are know talking about replacing him so, forgive me if I’am not as enthusiastic as you are about getting to the capital” I say, again with a bunch of venom in my voice, though this time she was prepared for it so I got no reaction from her.

“Well I’m sincerely sorry, for all the actions aldsoothia tooka and will take that will hurt you” she says sincerely. And i can tell she’s sincere because I was plugged into her vitals and brain, and while she can keep her heart rate and stress down she can’t change the electrical signals in her brain

That conversation was seriously demanding. So I’m gonna sleep now and how for a better tomorrow