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You settle over her, your essence bleeding into the paper. The ink begins to swirl like oil on water.

The moment the king disappears behind the heavy velvet tapestries, a shift occurs. The Great Hall grows unnaturally quiet, the air crackling with a sudden, localized heat. The Sorcerer at the King’s right hand—a man described with a muscular, dark authority—murmurs a single, guttural incantation. A spell of heavy stillness falls over the hall. In ones and twos, the men—the Lords and Knights—are drawn away by sudden "obligations," leaving the room occupied only by the Queen, the noble ladies, and the low-born servants who were previously invisible. The order of the court vanishes. The servants, sensing a shift they cannot explain, abandon their trays.

Cherie’s pulse begins to thud in her neck as she reads with a mix of horror and fascination. A kitchen helper approaches the Duchess of Cornwall. He doesn't bow; he reaches out and cups her breast through her heavy velvet bodice. The Duchess lets out a soft, sharp gasp and leans into his palm, her eyes fluttering shut. The prose shifts from courtly to carnal with a jarring, hypnotic speed.

The servants, emboldened by the King’s absence and the Sorcerer’s haze, moved with a new, predatory grace. A page, the very same messenger who drew the king away, approached a high-born Baroness. He didn't bow; he simply reached into his breeches and freed a heavy, pulsing length of manhood. The Baroness, a woman of noted virtue, did not scream. Her eyes widened, her pupils swallowing the candlelight as she leaned forward, her tongue tracing the tip of the raw, salt-scented shaft before taking him deep into her mouth, without a thought for her husband who left just moments before.

The scene on the page becomes hyper-vivid. The long, oak banquet table—once a symbol of royal status—becomes an altar of lust. A Duchess is swept back among the silver platters, her silk skirts bunched around her waist as a massive, soot-stained blacksmith impales her, his rhythmic thrusts sending wine goblets crashing to the stone floor. At the head of the table, a footman is seated in the King's own chair, his legs spread as a Countess kneels between them, her pearls clashing against his rough breeches as she takes him into her mouth with a ****, frantic hunger.

Cherie gasps, her fingers cramping around the book’s spine. Her eyes fly down the page. Her hand moves to her throat, her fingers tracing the line of her collarbone. She is trembling. She feels a localized surge of heat in her core, a pulsing, rhythmic ache that matches the cadence of the prose. She closes the book with a violent snap, her chest heaving, but then, after a heartbeat of silence, she slowly reopens it to the same page.

The narrative focuses on the Queen. She is laid back on the table, the cold wood a shock against her skin. She is being taken from behind by a kitchen hand, his hands gripping her hips with a bruising ****, while she simultaneously pulls another servant toward her, taking his length into her mouth. Around her, the female handmaidens—usually the targets of the court's predatory whims—now circle the table, whispering encouragement and touching the Queen’s exposed skin, their faces masks of illicit triumph.

The sorcerer smiles at the depravity he has created. He melts back out of the room, leaving the noble ladies of the court, most of them married, to the carnal pleasures of the lowest servants.

Cherie’s breath is coming in short, jagged hitches. She’s reading the ultimate taboo—the collapse of the social order—and she can feel the rebellion in her own body. She thinks of Chad, so rigid and predictable, and then she thinks of you, and then she thinks of Mike. And Mark. She feels like the Queen on that table: trapped, exposed, and secretly, shamefully, grateful.

She slams the book shut, her chest heaving. “Inappropriate,” she hisses at the empty room, her face a mask of scarlet guilt. “Utterly... disgusting.”

She immediately reaches for her notebook to record the "revulsion" she feels, but her pen begins to describe the King's absence with a focus that betrays her words.

Smiling the same smile as the sorcerer, you drift out of the room, leaving this noble lady to record her desires.