Royal Risk - Ilya/The Council "Long Live the Queen" close

"Your Grace!"A liveried servant burst open the door to the King's study, so manic with energy he didn't manage to catch the heavy oaken door and it bounced off the opposite wall with a loud THUD. A ripple of fright ran through the assembled party: one minister nearly dropped the bundle in her arms, another jumped to their feet as if to escape the danger of the intruder. Ilya herself startled hard enough ...

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Royal Risk Short Story: Ilya/Hadrian "The Night Before" close

Hadrian didn't notice the portrait swing open. Ilya stepped down over the threshold of the secret passage and stood there, watching. The table in the middle of the room, usually full of stacks of books and papers and various contraptions, had been cleared to make room for the large map now unfurled across its surface. The only place for books there now were the heavy tomes that held down...

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