He would rather have a boring journey. The uneventful kind, where people dozed off after a few minutes.
Safety was important. Of course it was. But if he had to endure a shaky carriage ride, he'd rather do it only with the physical backlash of it.
Preferably one without a child hero glaring at him without a break. Better if no one turned his way looking like he had committed some crime against them.
And it had barely been ten minutes. The kind where each second dragged on longer than necessary.
Now, Reis knew why the thirteen-year-old was not happy with him. His not being happy was definitely one of the reasons why the prince got stuck in this in the first place.
As for the other one, Reis wasn't the one who put Adonis in the opposite seat. It was decided by his majesty.
The students should be on the same side. While the supposed teacher and the guard took the other side. Then there would be no reason to suspect anything.
