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"Choi han, do me a favor."
Neither took their eyes off the rambling clopeh, going on about some museums dedicated to him and wow Cale would rather not think about that anymore-
"Yes Cale-nim?" Choi han looked to be two seconds away from commiting homicide.
"Please make him take two steps to the left."
As Choi han picked up clopeh and put him in a circle formed by the floor tiles, Cale slammed his heel on the corner of another tile.
The secret trapped door opened up under clopeh, sending him into darkness as he screamed.
"...Where does that lead to?"
"He'll be fine."
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Ron was doing his daily tasks like normal.
Recently, Cale had taken up this habit of surprising the others by popping out of seemingly random areas and acting like it's normal.
Just yesterday Ron watched Cale disappear into a wall and walk out from behind a bookshelf in a completely different room 20 minutes later. It was very amusing to him.
As of right now, Ron has a feeling someone is watching him.
On a whim, he speaks out loud towards a painting who's eyes have been blinking.
"Is that you young master?"
A beat of silence.
"...No."
"My mistake then, Beacrox will be taking tea up to your room shortly."
Continuing like normal, Ron proceeds with moving the laundry, pretending he didn't hear short giggling coming from that same painting.
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While Beacrox was testing one of Choi han's recipes, one of the lower decorative cabinets began opening up and Hong in his cat form with Cale both stuck their heads out.
"Please refrain from using the passageways that are near the floor, Young Master."
"Mm, Hong wanted to learn how to make cookies."
"Hehe~ these tunnels are fun!"
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"I can't find Cale anywhere. Ron, do you know where he is?"
"Ho.. Have you checked the walls?"
"...what?"
Choi han piped in, "The ceiling too!"
"Huh??"
Rosalyn also butted in, clearly enjoying the crown prince being confused.
"Check the paintings!"
Eruhaben snorted.
"I'll go get him," as he walked to a painting and opened it like a door, mumbles of "unlucky bastard.." could be heard.
"Huh????"
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"Young Master, the Duke and Duchess have come over to visit."
"Wha..?" It was his nap time with the kids- Ohn was yawning, Hong was still half asleep and so was Raon.
"I don.. wanna ro right now.." raon's adorable voice was being muffled because he had his face buried in Cale's shirt.
"I apologize. They didn't send a prior notice so it may be important."
"Okay.. *yawn*, let's find a different napping spot"
Moving a bit sluggish, all four got up in their pajamas and brought their pillows with them.
"I'm going to tuck them in again, be out in a bit." Cale said to Ron as the four used a hidden revolving door in the hallway.
30 minutes later Ron would have to ask Eruhaben to go get Cale because Cale fell asleep again as soon as he entered their pillow room.
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(A/N: originally I wanted Cale to step out of the room with the children all ready for the day and yell "Scatter!" And they all run towards different directions preparing to hide in the walls-)
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"What's wrong with you?"
Alberu was staring weirdly at Choi han, who looked to be in a better mood than usual.
"Cale-nim showed me a passageway that gets to the training room faster."
The crown prince stilled. He knew that not just anyone got secret passage access. Cale thought it was funny when he managed to scare people by dropping in randomly. Rosalyn had tried to find any entrances around her room with magic but she was unsuccessful.
Even though it was only one, it was still more progress than anyone else has made-
The rest of the day everyone not so subtly gave Choi han the stink eye.
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*After 30 minutes of alberu looking for Cale*
"What a pleasure it is to see Roan's esteemed comm-"
"No."
And with a well placed smack on one of the bricks in the wall, Cale was gone with Raon still in his arms.
"Damn it"
—
"Cale keeps reminding me of a squirrel."
"Is it because he keeps hiding gold coins all over the place?"
"You guessed it. I heard from Ron that he found a huge pile under a statue-"
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"This definitely was the best way to spend our weekend."
The Ohn and Hong were using gold piles as slides and Raon was making snow angels. (Gold angels?)
All while Cale peacefully took a nap in the middle of their now overflowing gold room.
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Cale was just talking with his father about some basic paperwork. If you asked him, he'd tell you that this definitely was not intentional-
They were both talking in the hallway when Cale leaned on a wall. Because of course now that he uses the secret passages in the super rock villa like a mole in the ground, he has to find one in the Henituse mansion.
And after 25 minutes of Deruth panicking and everyone frantically searching, Cale stumbles back into his office out of breath talking about why he got sent to a library on the other side of the mansion-
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Lol