'How are you people not starving? ' she asked, crossing out another profit number and tripling it with the western graphite stick.

'We manage, ' Huo answered, calculated, 'Self sufficiency can add a buffer to exchanges. Give us a medicinal blossom we can treat one. Propagate the seeds and we have medicine for years. '

'Fair. '

It was time to drop off numbers and their favorite bouncing floof. Luckily he had gotten some energy out, so he wasn 't quite so energetic. Huo opened the door and offered a playful bow, 'After you, milady. '

She eyed him amused and entered the green wing. What she didn 't realize was how the sun silhouetted her form as she entered, bare shouldered, the curve of her hip accentuated, soft braid falling to one side. Nor had she realized that in all their fusses and folds the frog in the corner of the fabric fluttered front and center as she stepped in.

So imagine her confusion at the red faced, glowing prince.