"King," he confirms. He's pretty sure that if the other man were actually interested in standing on his rank he'd have mentioned it a while back and not led with his work as a stablemaster first. "I figure you consider yourself off duty here, but tell me if I should be calling you Highness or something, okay?"

Bucky runs his thumb over the edges of the plank and carefully scrapes off the last of the old paint, then does it again to check.

"So what changed?"