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Royal spooned bacon and eggs onto plates. My stomach was cold and empty and covered with muscle that growled as the smell hit my nostrils.
"That smells amazing," I said as I took a seat at the counter. My hood was still up, and I didn't plan on taking it off anytime soon, so I used my fork to fly bits of egg and toast into its cavernous depths. Royal interrupted my egg shovelling.
"Take the hood off."
"Is that an order?"
"I need to see how healed you are."
"Fine." I felt like a pouty teenager. When I finished these eggs, I was so out of here. "You couldn't just let me eat for a few minutes."
"Hood."
I sighed and pulled the hood back, all three men gasped.
"What?" I looked around at their stricken faces. "I couldn't possibly have gotten worse out there."
"No, Phoenix," S
