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"Hey Cornelius!"
He cringed, the only way his brother could have made his salutation more unbearable would have been if he had used his title of Prince. Prehaps if he ignored him then he would go away.
"Corneli, I know you heard me," this was accompanied by a series of thumps before Cornelius' older brother latched onto his back and wrestled him to the ground.
He thrashed in an effort to get up, a futile effort.