Coronation Of A Disaster
Lord Thayes was saying, gesturing with a quill that looked like a plucked chicken, "that the reconstruction of the East Wing should adhere to the Neo-Gothic aesthetic. The original stonework is costly, and quite frankly, Your Majesty, the peasants find it oppressive. We suggest vinyl siding. In a tasteful beige."
I stared at him. I looked at the heavy oak table, the velvet tapestries, the ghosts of my ancestors judging us from the walls.
"Vinyl siding," I repeated. The word tasted like plastic despair. "On a castle that has stood for a thousand years. Lord Thayes, are you trying to give me an aneurysm?"
"It is cost-effective," he argued.
"So is a guillotine," I countered. "But you don't see
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