Chapters tagged mtf

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 25

 You wake on rough bed that is no longer the hard and sticky banquet table. The ceiling is ribs of old timber. Someone has put a folded blanket under your head and not under the rest of you, and the air smells like so...

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Chapter 26

The portress does not wait. She enters and puts a wooden box on the blanket as if it might bite her and she is already backing out when Brin tips the lid. Inside is a bottle the color of cheap glass, stoppered in wax, and a contract written in a hand that has never had to raise i...

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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...