Gone again! Gone! Well away from the blossoming tyrant that was his brother @Asriel. 'Do this, Sköll. Do that, Sköll.' From how the silvery prince of Willow Ridge saw his current circumstances, he could very well be likened to his brother's servant.. which was something that he was absolutely, positively not. It had been weeks since he had 'dismissed' the albino mouse that he had adopted as his chew toy and appointed "pacifier," but a part of him had wished he had taken the poor dilapidated thing along instead of leaving it buried in the ground where he was sure his siblings would never find it.
Insecurities aside, Sköll was at least relieved to be free of the scrutinizing pairs of eyes that namely belonged to @Morganna, Angier, Guiness, and his sovereign of a mother. Head held high and tail held out like a banner behind him, he stepped out from under the shadows of the willows on the very edge of @Elettra's lands. This Willow Ridge youngster as going to go exploring on his own and, this time, no one would catch him. With a mind akin to that of a seven-year-old boy, the silver-tinted prince had other things on his mind aside from the etiquette lessons and skill training that was nearly an everyday thing on his agenda.
Adventure! Curious investigations! Hands-on - or, rather, paws-on - learning! Those were the activities that ought to fill his waking hours... He wouldn't have to suffer through his siblings' torture nor brace himself under the scorn of his elders before brushing it all away. Sköll Archer was a prince in his own mind and right and should have been allowed from the very start to do as he pleased. One of those ventures being attempting to find something strange and startling to drop onto Angier's sleeping form. The tawny giant, he often observed, was getting much too close to Elettra for the boy's tastes... even if the Lyall merely followed the Leader around for hours around. Still, the prince believed that if anyone ought to be in such a position, the only man who was worthy of following Elettra's footsteps was him - his mother's look-alike son and heir.