Obviously, making jokes around Cole wasn't the best idea. He was pretty sure he'd never even seen the other laugh.

"Nevermind," he sighed, then reached a hand up to Fluffy again to rub around the base of her horn, before nodding out into the yard again. There were more people roaming around by now, the guard rotation changing shifts and the vendors going to tend to their stalls, chantry sisters coming out to greet the day and start their chores.

with an easy tug on Cole's hand, Krem started out toward the training ring. "Come on, before it gets taken over by Cullen's men."