The weather was blissfully warm as Tommy entered the nearly-empty palace gardens, a far cry from the chill that had been haunting him all day in the palace His older brother was busy training with Techno, leaving Tommy to his own devices- a fact that most people, had they given it any actual thought, would've acknowledged to be a horrible idea. Tommy was horrendously bored, and if he had to stay inside for even one more moment, he was sure he would've screamed or done something that would've yet again gotten him in trouble.

He flopped down in the grass next to a large tree with a loud groan, his arm flopping over his eyes as the early afternoon sun shone down on him through the tree's leaves.