"Du bist die schönste Prinzessin," he murmurs, interrupting his story to grin in the dark. Luckily, the night hides most of his smiling, and he launches himself back into the story without letting too much time go by, not wanting Cougar to let himself get worked up again.

He does make a point to change the princess from a beautiful blonde with sparkling blue eyes to a brooding beauty with black hair and deep, hooded eyes that are always shaded with a hat, though.

Cougar brought it on himself.