"Your Highness," Corin said, bowing deeply and polietly. Goodness but she was a beautiful young lady. "Yes, if I may. Your Bother The Prince invited me, but it seems as though neither he or my brother are here yet." And he didn't dare sit down.
"Oh yes," Riku knew what the Prince referred to. His precious little pile of coins, going towards his freedom. "That is what I earned while working in the Trabian camp," he said, without shame. It wasn't going to happen again, and he wasn't hiding such facts from the Prince.