In his bedroom, Gyllen was prepping himself in order to pay Min yet another quick visit. It was quite early in the day compared to when the prince usually left the palace for an excursion to the Monster District, as evident by the sun still hanging high in the sky. He figured leaving at such an hour meant he would be able to spend more time with the goblin, though that doubly meant there would be more possibilities for him to get caught by the castle's more active staff and patrolmen without the cover of night to help conceal him. However, he had enough confidence in his stealth abilities at this point that he could slip out undetected. The prince was elongating his eyelashes with cheap, black mascara, adding the finishing touches to his disguise, when the door slammed open behind him without warning. Gyllen instinctively spun around to see the intruder was none other than his sister: Princess Eir.
"Hiya, Li'l Bro!" She greeted him with a wide smile and an open hand stuck high into the air as she barged into the room unannounced.
Eir was a young, dainty flower of a woman about the same height as her brother. A silver tiara decorated with large emeralds was placed atop her head, surrounded by voluminous, auburn hair that curled down her round face and back and rested on her shoulders. Her eyes were a similar shape to that of Gyllen, only they were coloured deep hazel like their mother. The rest of her, however, was not quite so petite as her innocent face let on. Hidden beneath her flowing, white and yellow dress, she possessed immodest curves in the form of an hourglass figure. Eir was also sporting a heavy set of breasts that boldly bounced and bulged out from her clothing. the biggest pair out of all of the princesses by a very wide margin that rivalled even Queen Helio's cup size.
Gyllen almost died of embarrassment then and there upon being busted in on just as he was getting ready to go out. Even if Eir was not the brightest palace denizen, Gyllen would never be able to convince one of his own family members he was another person like he had done with the orc strangers the previous day, especially seeing how he had been caught within the confines of his own chambers. The transvestite prince mentally prepared himself for the worst-case reaction though, luckily for him, Eir was dense enough to come to a different conclusion.
"Oooh, are you playing dress up?" She cooed. "It's been a while since we last did that. You look so pretty!"
"Yes! That's it! Playing dress up!" Gyllen lied, taking the opportunity to further deceive his sister into not believing he was a cross-dressing skank. "That is the sole reason as to why I am clothed like this...with no ulterior motives whatsoever..." He went on to overexplain himself. Eir only giggled girlishly.
"'Ulterior'." She parroted. "You say funny things, Little Bro!" Gyllen groaned but was relieved his bluff apparently succeeded.
"Anyway, what did you want?"
"Oh, yeah! I wanted to play with ya!"
"Eir, I'm two years your junior and even I'm far too old for your games anymore." Gyllen rebuked, trying not to dwell too hard on the fact he was having this otherwise ordinary conversation with his sibling whilst outfitted in a skirt a couple sizes too small for him. "Besides, I was just about to take my leave."
"I'll tag along then!"
"Absolutely not!" Gyllen responded near instantaneously.
"Awww, why?" Eir looked to him with sad, puppy-dog eyes and a quivering lip. Gyllen was not about to fall prey and give Eir any sympathy as so many others before him had done so whenever she made that exact expression, though he was struggling to come up with another credible fib in the meantime.
"It's...er...I'm going to a secret boy's only club!" The prince claimed. "No girls allowed. You wouldn't understand."
"Fine then..." Eir pouted. "Spoilsport."
"In fact, it's so secret that if you tell anyone I told you, I will...um...cut off your ringlets!" Gyllen frightened his sister with the best harmless threat he could think of.
"Not my ringlets!" Eir squeaked out of panic, raising her hands to her curls as though to shield them from imaginary shears. "I won't tell a soul, Li'l Bro!"
"Good. I'm glad we're in agreement for once." The prince said as he draped his cloak over himself. "How about you go and pester Silfr for a few hours instead?" He offhandedly remarked.
"Oh, good idea!" Eir gaily skipped away to her younger twin's chamber as though the alarming demands were never even made. Gyllen sighed aloud in alleviation then swiftly made his exit.
Eir barged into Silfr's bedroom with as much vigour as she had when entering Gyllen's, shaking the dingy accommodations. The black curtains were drawn despite it being a lovely spring afternoon, allowing very little natural light to break through. Various bones of different shapes and origins, and glass cases displaying preserved carcasses of venomous insects, reptiles and arachnids were dotted about the room on desks and shelves as a hazy stink of incense lingered in the air.
"Siiilf!" Gylly is being a big ol' sourpuss again! Can we some fun?" Eir moaned at a drab figure leisurely lying on the purple sheets of a bed on the other side of the room, fingering through an ancient necromancy tome in the flickering light of a nearby candle. This was Princess Silfr, possibly the least popular out of all the successors. Silfr's hair was smooth and straight, similar to her brother's in style and length though, instead of being lustrous gold with short bangs, hers was coal black and parted midway on either side from her face. Her skin was a pasty pigmentation, the only signs of colour on her pale, narrow face seeming to stem from dark cosmetics painted around her icy, blue eyes and along her thin lips.
When it came to clothes, she had a most ghastly sense of style. Nearly everything was black in hue, making her look monochromatic when combined with her white skin. A simple, long-sleeved dress hung from her skinny being, far less flowing than what Eir was clothed in, and she wore fingerless, elbow-length gloves, embroidered with a white spiderweb motif, that showed off her ebony nails. Her gothic look was completed with a tacky, macabre choker on her slim neck embellished with a pendant in the likeness of a goat skull. Unlike her slightly older sister, Silfr was not quite so blessed when it came to bust size, with her less-than-average bosom volume being completely overshadowed by her more crowd-pleasing twin, making her look as flat as Gyllen by comparison.
"What distraction from the knowledge that we are all living in a futile, petty existence within the grand cosmic scheme would you like to partake on this hideously radiant day, my vulnerable, naΓ―ve lamb of a relative?" Silfr asked in a monotonous voice dripping with angst, slamming her book shut with both hands while staring at Eir with a sleepy but steadfast gaze.
"Tea party! Tea party!" Eir exclaimed as she clasped her hands in giddy joy at finally finding a playmate, despite not comprehending half of what Silfr just said.
Eir's room had not changed much since her childhood. The walls were a gaudy shade of rose, patterned with depictions of pretty flowers and cute butterflies. Her bookshelves were starved of any published works outside of the odd picture book, instead mainly filled with all sorts of stuffed animals when they were not being played with. In the centre of the princess' lodging was a round, short-legged, wooden table, painted pinks and whites. Around the table, sitting on pillows, was Eir and her 'party guests': several fluffy characters in addition to Silfr, whose silent, gloomy demeanour severely stood out from the chamber's merry atmosphere. Eir was pouring lukewarm tea out from a small, finely crafted, bone china teapot into cups of equal quality atop saucers laid out before each of her toys. By the time she got around to serving her sister however, the golden-brown liquid was nothing more but a few drops leaking from the spout.