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Collared Constellations
He’s the prettiest thing in chains, and the most dangerous man in the room.Tikh – the name the court gave Kestrel when they collared him – is the Queen’s jester, her ornament, her “pet” in silk and bells. They see the pale skin, the…
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Previously
…The silence that followed was not the empty silence of boredom, but the charged silence of anticipation. It was the quiet before the storm, the stillness of a predator poised to strike. I could feel the subtle shift in the court’s atmosphere, the nascent fault lines widening. Valerius would not rest. His ambition was a hungry beast, and it would demand to be fed. But I was here, the collared strategist, the jester king, the quiet guardian of this gilded cage. And I would ensure that the beast, in its hunger, would consume itself. The game had begun, and while Valerius believed he held the reins, he was merely a pawn, dancing to a tune he could not yet hear. My tune. My dance.