"Great," Andy replied dryly. "Not before noon, okay?"

Daemon merely snorted and went to sit next to Belle again, just waiting for Lucivar to come yell at him or wrestle him or something. Lucivar tended to do immediate payback; he tended to wait instead. For moments like these.

Lucivar didn't immediately show, which Andy expected. She'd forbidden attempted bloodshed, so he was probably taking out his temper on some unsuspecting tree before coming back to camp.

Belle and Daemon stayed there, along with Thomas, just waiting for Lucivar to come back and think of something to do to Daemon.

After a few minutes, Lucivar stomped into camp, shoved a fighting stick into Daemon's hand, and pulled him away.

"You're coming with me," he growled.

Andy just rolled her eyes. Stress relief in the form of 'sparring.' Typical.

Daemon snorted. "Like you haven't done that to me before," he muttered, but he got up all the same, moving away from the trainers.

Belle chuckled. "Well, life is certainly going to be more interesting."

Andy nodded, and then grinned.

"Just one more book I need to get my hands on," she said, "and then I'm caught up. I can't wait to get my hands on it."

"Once I finish Sebastian I'll go work on getting caught up," Belle said. "So far Teaser's okay, but then again I haven't gotten very far in."

"Teaser is hysterical," Andy said, grinning. "He's so cute when he's flustered."

"I haven't seemed them flustered, just scared shitless," Belle said with a shrug.

"Oh, it's good when he's flustered," Andy said, grinning. "He tries to hit on Nadia at some point, then realizes that she is, in fact, Sebastian's aunt, and then just freaks out."

Belle snorted. "Oh that sounds like fun. I'll have to tell you when I get there."

"Teaser is really easy to freak out," Andy said. "You'll see. That won't be the only time he spazzes."

"Now I know why you say I'd like to get one to torment," Belle said with a laugh. "I'll have to think about that."

"It would be kind of amusing," Andy agreed.

Belle just snickered. "Can you imagine him and Thomas? I get the feeling they'd get along too well, but so far Daemon and Thomas haven't done anything."

"Because you stopped their interaction before they could," Andy pointed out. "Besides, there's still plenty of time."

"This is both very true and still slightly disturbing." Belle shrugged. "Oh well."

"Lucivar should be done beating on Daemon soon," Andy said, checking her watch. "I hope this whole pseudo-prank-war ends soon."

"Not likely," Belle said. "Daemon said they'd been doing this for years."

"That just means that Lucivar won't pull his punches soon," Andy replied. "Daemon will get dropped into a lake soon enough. Off the back of a dragon, if Lucivar has his way."

Belle snorted. "Now that I would like to see. Daemon being dropped off the back of a dragon into a lake." She snorted.

Andy grinned.

"I bet we can even arrange it at sunset or so, so Saetan can watch the indignity," she said."

Belle grinned broadly. "I bet he'd have been in on the planning," she said. "He seems like the type to give them ideas and stand back and watch the fight."

Andy laughed.

"That seems about right," she agreed.