Chapter 18 — Sixty-One Questions
The Alpha of Ironridge was up to his elbows in a rotten grain sack when a voice at knee height said, "Excuse me."
Kade looked down.
Four feet of crown prince stood in the granary yard in a very good coat, holding a notebook in one hand and a freshly sharpened pencil in the other. Two royal guards hovered eight paces back wearing the faces of men composing letters of resignation.
"Young highness."
"I'm going to study you," Ash said.
Kade wiped his hands slowly on his thighs. "Study me."
"You're the largest unknown quantity in my life and you stand outside my bedroom door all night." Ash opened the notebook to a clean page. "Mother says never guess at a thing you can measure. So I'm going to measure you. I'll walk two steps behind. I won't touch anythi
