Duskfire Glacier usurped

Much as he didn't want to admit it, the boy was becoming irritated, and it was not often he was irritated. Though, he kept his voice calm. "To have properly met, one should have spoken to the other." He replied cooly, not letting the older boys words catch him out. Kieran wasn't the best with words but he tried and the phrase he had spoken was one he had tried to think of while Hawthorn was babbling on. 

He listened, with a flick of his ear, to what the other boy had to say about the territory and it honestly made Kieran inwardly sigh. Did this boy feel nothing for the land he once lived in? With a scowl, the prince responded. "Just 'cause I'm the new heir doesn't mean you have to be so bitter!" Yes, it was a childish argument, but Kieran was a child and it did not sound childish to him. Normally, the boy wouldn't have never raised his voice, but he had wanted to like Hawthorn, and at the moment that seemed like a difficult task.