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by Opps-Thats-Mine

Chapter 22

The king smirks at the mess he left and snaps his fingers once, not at you, at the kitchen door. The head chef comes out with a cloth and a fried pastry as long as a forearm, dark and blistered, twisted so that both ends are thick enough to hold, and nobody in the hall has to be...

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Chapter 23

A steward brings the dish and the ribbon and the little iron, and they press the wax onto your stomach because that is the only clean-enough skin left that is not a breast or a bruise. It is hot. You flinch and the lead ticks, and the steward waits until the pool settles into a r...

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Chapter 30

"Fine," you say, perhaps wishing your hadn't. "It is not ideal. If that is what is needed, I will do it." Hemm’s mouth ticks. He jerks his chin at the back passage. "Room behind the green curtain. Outfit on the bed. Put it on and do not come out at all unless I tell you. Got it...

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Chapter 31

 The green curtain pulls back and the room gets six more bodies in it, all men, all adults, all dressed like they have houses near the palace. They stop before you, and they look at the ivory-and-black, at the long blo...