Rescue Dogs: Chapter Eleven
Valorous and Cecil go to dinner with Cicero Penllwynog and Coshel Fenwick.
Cecil Hobbes, an ex-PE teacher disgraced and looked down on in his hometown, has a new partner: Sir Valorous King, a knight of the realm, once a child of prophecy, and Cecil’s stalker.
A few months into their relationship, Cecil finally convinces Valorous to see a therapist, on the condition that Cecil attend one himself.
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The Penllwynogs were an old family, had historically been battle mages — some of their number had fought in King Arthur’s armies, had fought alongside Myrddin at the very beginning and before. Valorous is fairly certain that, as with many of the older, more historically significant families around Britain and Ireland (and a few other places besides) he could write out Cicero Penllwynog’s family tree from scratch.
He was the middle of his siblings, Valorous knew — he had met all of them here and there, Tacitus, Lucretia, Rhea, and Vesta, then Cicero, then Julius, the baby. Julius got on his nerves, and so did Rhea; he got on decently with Lucretia, had spent a few nights here and there bitching…
