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Edarial is nine, and he's avoiding his mother again.
Exploring the palace gets old after a while, but the library's even worse, and he suspects that if he spent any more time in his room, he'd scream. So, exploring the palace it is. Berathyme's with him, anyway, so the palace won't be so boring. She tends to make observations he didn't notice himself, and that's always interesting, if not always useful. Corridor, corridor, guest rooms, oh yes that is the closet with all of the uncomfortably looking coats, he'd forgotten about that one. Berathyme observes that they've been used relatively recently, some poor souls must have suffered - and then he opens a door and there's something he doesn't recognize.
He stares at the bar in confusion, consults briefly with Berathyme, and then wanders in.
What exactly is going on here?
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royal_obligation
royal_obligation
"It's sort of - I don't just want it to be a 'I need to be king, so you, you're not the worst possible choice here, let's get married' sort of thing. And also it's difficult to get into any sort of relationship with 'And also he is a prince' sort of - perpetually hanging over my head."
royal_pain
"Yup. Not it. I mean like, I can probably pick a girl that's fine with me banging other dudes while married to her, and have a sort of - sexless partnership kinda deal, but kingship plus the heir problem - ahahaha, no."
royal_pain
Zevros makes a very unreadable expression, and looks between Edarial and Shell Bell.
royal_obligation
"I, uh," volunteers Edarial, "actually do want to be king. Just the - stupid marriage rule."
royal_obligation
"A bit, and it's such a mess, I'm trying to clean it up but there's so much I can't do while I'm just a prince."
royal_obligation
"I mentioned my mother made an awful queen? She had this habit of just - doing things on a whim. Which occasionally included giving estates from one family to another for no reason. Or something."
she_sells_seashells
"So now you have to figure out how to get back all the things people need that have been put in the wrong places."
royal_obligation
"And do it politely without - insulting the people that enjoy their shiny new gifts. Yes."
she_sells_seashells
"Can you get the people who got the things and the people who originally had them to make friends and then nudge the first to give the things back to the second as presents? Or give the original holders credit for doing something nice that's actually mostly you, for the current holders."