Noire

"Here you go, Rito."

Pyra was still in her full regalia as she set a cup of tea in front of Rito. The pink, green, gold and black ensemble was like nothing anyone outside the royal family really wore, but a long royal tradition resulted in some strange dress sense for a princess. They were at the capital, and Pyra had been attending formal functions and rubbing shoulders with other elites all day. There were some people she got along with but as she would openly admit, it was dreadfully boring.

And meanwhile Rito was on his own the whole day too. Her duties as spare to the throne hardly needed her Stamen present, so rather than inflict a whole day or boring formality and political talk on him she'd simply told him to be his own person and enjoy himself. She didn't know how much of that he'd actually done, since he was in her quarters when she returned, but if he'd had fun playing videogames all day or something she was hardly going to begrudge him that.

"I hope your day wasn't as much of a drag as mine," she said as she sat at the table with him, taking a sip of her own tea.