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...