Goblin in the Rafters [Kayen]

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Kayen leaned back as far as she could on the throne doing her best to make it VERY clear to the man standing at the foot of the stairs leading up to it that she was growing VERY bored with his increasingly tedious efforts to sway her to alter the current deal the Kingdom had with his buisness, from what little Kayen had paid attention to him he wanted the rates he needed to pay slashed by some absurd amount and even some additional aid. This was all of course in spite of the fact that his business was booming and from what Barb was able to dig up he was himself making a HEFTY profit. But if you took HIS telling of it he was only barely scraping by.

Kayen had put Barb, who had herself put a few other more versed in such things, on the job of researching the people who she was to meet with, it was part of why, other than just not wanting to have the meeting at all, that she always postponed these meetings. Sure it ultimately made it MORE tedious to sit through them ‘explaining’ things she already knew from the reports she was given but at least it meant she could tell them to fuck off from a position of knowledge AND power.

Near the end of his rant Kayen heard a strange sound, like a laugh, and then suddenly something fell from high up in the rafters of the throne room crashing at Kayen’s feet just a few inches from hitting the stairs, a fate that would have likely made things worse for the tiny invader. Kayen leaned forward confused by what she was seeing while the guards scrambled to figure out what the hell was going on.

Kayen took a chance and gave Skash a look that indicated he should move the idiot she had been meeting with out of here, as she turned her attention back onto the tiny invader they appeared to have recovered enough and it was then as he looked up at her that she recognized him. It was the brat from the training exercise.

Kayen blinked a few times as the stuffy noble was escorted out, Skash selling him on a story that it was for his safety and that the meeting would be rescheduled once they knew everything was safe.

“The hell are you doing here pipsqueak?” Kayen questioned standing from her throne before promptly dropping to a knee to be more at eye level with the brat, her guards were none to pleased by the Queen getting so close to a possible invader even if they DID appear to be a child but she simply waved them off.

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Kayen blinked as she processed the brat’s explanation, apparently he had never actually left after the training session, Kayen had assumed that once he’d gotten patched up he would have just gone back to his parents since she had still been under the assumption that the brat was probably one of her guard’s kids.

And it seemed he had just been hiding out in the palace ever since, Kayen chuckled at the kid mentioning he had decked presumably one of the guards, but she supposed it DID make sense that it was possible. The brat was tiny and considering he’d been in the rafters of all places probably had known to keep hidden, the palace was more than large enough with enough unused rooms for him to keep hidden.

“It’s what you are, it means tiny brat” Kayen said patting the kid on the head condescendingly though with an amused grin “Why the hell did you stick around here brat, someone has to be looking for you, your parents? Maybe an aunt or something? Who takes care of you when you AREN'T hiding out in a palace?” Kayen said trying to figure out where the hell this kid had come from.

Surely if her original guess, that he was one of the guards kids, had been correct SOMEONE would have said something. As far as she knew none of her guards were such a level of moron that they would be too embarrassed to raise a search for their own brat.

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Kayen blinked a few times as the brat finally explained his situation, she hadn’t expected what he’d said and in turn it had completely thrown her off. She’d expected that the kid would whine about something wrong with his home, perhaps his parents not allowing him to wander as much as he wanted or something along those lines, simple childish issues born from not quite understanding the world.

But apparently that was not the case AT ALL, apparently the kid didn’t HAVE parents. And at least based off of what little she DID know about this kid it seemed unlikely he even had the capacity to form a lie like that. Kayen pinched the bridge of her nose trying to figure out what to actually do about this, he plan had been to figure out who the kid belonged to and make sure he ended up back where he belonged. But if the kid didn’t HAVE anyone watching over him then that would make figuring out where to put him infinitely more complicated.

Kayen was snapped out of her thoughts as Kabe asked her a question “Wha? Nobody, I take care of myself, I’m not a kid” Kayen responded quickly barely even thinking of her response but VERY immediately regretting it as she had a bad feeling the brat would get the wrong idea and think that HE wasn’t a kid because HE did not have anyone watching over him.

“How long have you been on your own kid?” Kayen asked, maybe the kid just did not understand exactly what having someone watching over him actually meant? Maybe he DID have someone taking care of him that just happened to not be one of his parents?

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“No, you’re definitely a kid” Kayen said as quickly as she could in an effort to cut off that line of thinking from the brat as soon as physically possible, the last thing anyone needed was this brat thinking he counted as an adult and could thus do any sort of thing he had been told was only for adults or was for when he was older. Kayen might not know TOO much about children but she DID know exactly the sort of trouble she would have gotten up to when she was this brat’s age if she perceives herself as being given license to to pretend she was an adult.

Then things finally came to the kid spilling the beans on who was supposed to be watching over him, Kayen had figured the kid would reluctantly give up where he was supposed to be, then she could get Skash to call them in and off the kid would go back to where he belonged. Maybe she’d give the heads up that it WAS fine to bring him just as long as people who were supposed to be watching over him knew where he was.

He wasn’t a BAD kid after all.

But as the kid stumbled through his explanation it became clear that things were about to get VERY complicated VERY fast, and then as expected, they did. The kid didn’t seem exceptionally SAD by the news he had dropped though clearly struggled with actually explaining it, perhaps were they Earthlings the news that this kid had apparently been on his own since he was three would have been regarded with far more suspicision, Earthling children were however less… ‘resiliant’ Saiyans however were adaptable beings even from a young age.

That a three year old Saiyan had figured out how to keep himself alive for eight years was not terribly strange though it WAS rather unfortunate.

“Uh.. yeah I’ve got parents, not here though, far away. I haven’t seen them in a long while” Kayen added the last part almost absent mindedly and not quite intentionally. “No kids though” Kayen also clarified and all things considered it was probably unlikely she would have any either.

Kayen was left at a bit of a loss, while the kid apparently could keep himself going alone considering he’d made it this long without any guardians it did not quite seem ‘right’ to just shoo the kid away back onto the streets to fend for himself. If he had his age right he’d be a teenager soon and that meant he’d be properly growing and Saiyan teens needed A LOT of food to develop right, back in the day a kid like him probably would have gotten shipped off to some far off planet and ended up eating every beast in sight, but here on Vegeta it would be quite a bit more difficult.

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