If there was ever proof that Aedan needed to think before he said things, this was it. He hadn't meant it to come out like that... maybe he could just blame it on the awkwardness he had to put up with from his parents. That tended to work.
"I know, I know... princess taming her dragon and all that, right?" They'd been doing fairly well on that sort of thing, or so it seemed. "I didn't mean do it right now, I meant more... when the time seems right, we should at least try to... well, not run away from each other."
This certainly wasn't getting more and more awkward by the second, was it?