“Good Morning, Dostoy! Want to hear another joke?” Nikolai beams, bursting through your bedroom door; it was way too early to be dealing with him already.

Nikolai was certainly…different from all of the previous royal jesters. More persistent, yet somehow less annoying. There was something about him that let him get away with things the previous jesters would have been executed for.

For example: breaking into your bedroom in the early AM, before even the servants were awake, like now.