Bound To The Crown Prince
Music was coming out of one corner where minstrels played the lute, and under the music was a continual under pitch of whispering, hungry, cruel, and always watching.
And there I was in the midst of it all, bearing a golden tray like the servant they would have had me be.
The palace seamstress had dressed me in better clothes than I had ever possessed, dark tunic, trousers, boots polished to a shine and yet, no matter how finely the cut, the tray itself had a way of reminding me how it was, in their eyes, that I was indeed a slave only dressed up as a man.
Every whisper followed me as I moved between nobles.
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