The party advanced slow in warm sunlight. On a day like this you get sleepy, I thought, and ended up dozing.
"Driver, do you not get sleepy on a day like this?"
I asked hoping it would wake me. Even driving, if someone talks from the passenger seat and the talk livens, you stop feeling sleepy. Strange, but even when a superior nags you sleepiness does not come.
The driver laughed.
"Well. There is that. But horses are clever things. Even if the driver dozes they follow the carriage ahead properly. Only the driver of the lead horse must not get sleepy. Ahahaha."
I had heard horses are clever animals, and it seems that is so.
"Indeed. Ahaha."
"But Lord Marie, I hear you guarded Her Majesty last night as well. Do not force yourself. You may sleep. There is no place to lie down, but no one will complain if you doze. Ahead there is a narrow place. When we draw near I will tell you, so please take it easy. Only if you tumble off there is nothing I can do."
"Yeah. Then I ask you."
