Tao sat in silence as his private carriage carrying himself as well as Xiumin and Chen rode towards the Western Nation. It would not be long before they reach however Tao still felt dread pooling at the bottom of his stomach; he had never been away from his own palace and now he did not know how he would be able to keep his two companions safe. He sighed as he tried to stabilise his emotions, that yet again proved to be yet another worry for the young Dragon Prince, after all the only one able to control him in his 19 years of existence was Minseok, a deed even his father was unable to do.    He sighed again before he felt a hand on his knee. He looked up to meet Minseok’s concerned gaze and a soft warm smile directed at him which never failed to bring his spirits up like now. Minseok brought D.O’s package from earlier and placed it in front of him. ‘Taozi, you up for a game of Deal or Deal With It? For old time’s sakes?’   ‘You remember as well…just…just like Kyungsoo…’   ‘Of course we do! Didn’t we form the alliance then? The four of us?’   ‘Yeah…yeah we did…’ Tao grinned happily, tears again gathering in his narrow, dark eyes. Jongdae just looked between the two of them puzzled. He had no idea what they were talking about, he had only been taken to the inner court about a year ago and still found it hard to believe that the so called cold Prince seemed to care for his slaves as though they were…friends…except for Minseok and Kyungsoo…   Minseok laughed suddenly bringing him out of his thoughts; Jongdae turned to look at Minseok with wide eyes. ‘Hahahaha I guess you wouldn’t know seeing as you weren’t with us before. Here we’ll play the game watch.’   Jongdae watched as the two engaged in a simple game of Rock, Paper, and Scissors with unusual giddy smiles on their faces as though they couldn’t wait to see the outcome of said game. Tao groaned and let his forehead meet the floor of the carriage in defeat as Minseok whooped and pumped his fist in the air in victory. Jongdae’s face dropped as it formed a clown fish face, why on earth are they reacting like this for?   ‘Ahahahahahahaha’ Minseok started laughing, toppling backwards unable to control his laughter. ‘H-Here T-Taozi.’ He said opening Kyungsoo’s package and pushing it towards Tao who groaned before looking intently at the sweet buns the package contained. Scrunching up his nose and glaring at the still laughing Minseok he picked one of the miniature baozi and hesitantly put it in his mouth. Slowly but surely he started chewing, finally tasting the sweetness of the red bean taste he continued chewing quicker before he started coughing and choking, tears streaming out.   Panicking Jongdae rushed over to Tao’s side who had finally managed to stop choking and glared even stronger through teary eyes at the laughing Minseok who made no move whatsoever to rescue his Prince.    ‘What? Why? Hyung? My Lord?’ Jongdae started confused looking back forth between the two as they both wiped their tears caused by different reasons.   ‘What was it this time?’ Minseok asked finally bringing his laughter to light chuckles.   ‘Garlic.’ Tao grumbled pouting bri