The story, the poem, is long enough, and he's had to take a couple minute-long breaks in the middle-- that by the time he's done they've practically finished up the game. B is closing in on Godric's king a second time, mostly because he's good at doing multiple things at once, and Godric doesn't seem to care about winning.

"It's on the shelf," he says, and tilts his head at the brightly colored collection of kids books. "It's cute."