The Seven Virtues Series: Books 1-3: A Grimdark Epic Fantasy Adventure (The Seven Virtues Series Boxset) by Peppers Jacob

Author:Peppers, Jacob [Peppers, Jacob]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-09-13T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 31

Aaron stifled a yawn, shifting in his chair to try to find a more comfortable position. They’d waited for nearly two hours outside the Queen’s audience chamber, and he wasn’t a man used to waiting around unless he was getting paid to do it.

She intends to show Adina who rules here and who does not, Co said, a sneer in her voice, it is the way of nobles.

I detect a bit of hostility there, firefly. Anyway, she makes us wait much longer, they’ll open the doors to a snoring sellsword. Or skeletons, maybe, depending on how much this Isabelle has to prove.

He glanced at Leomin and noted that the Parnen’s head hung loosely on his chest, and though his long dark, braided hair obscured his features, it was easy enough to tell by the steady rise and fall of the Parnen’s chest that the man was asleep. As for Owen, the thin man sat nervously, his hands, when they weren’t fidgeting at his shirt in a failed attempt to make it fit better, clasped tightly in his lap like a child who’d been up to mischief waiting for his punishment.

Adina, on the other hand, grew angrier and angrier as Aaron watched, her frown a slight thing at first, now a steady scowl in truth as she got up for what must have been the tenth time and moved to the officious looking older woman sitting behind the desk by the door. “How much longer until we are allowed to see the queen?” Adina said, her exasperation evident in her tone, “The news we carry is urgent.”

The old woman glanced up from some papers she’d been looking over and shook her head slowly, apologetically, though Aaron thought he could detect a certain satisfaction in her eyes, “I’m afraid I’m not sure, princess. The Queen does not see fit to divulge her schedule to one as lowly as I, after all. Still, I was told she was very excited at the prospect of your visit and, no doubt, you will be allowed in shortly.”

“That’s what you said an hour ago.”

The woman didn’t answer, only smiled benignly at Adina. Finally, Adina let out a huff and walked back to sit down beside Aaron. “This is ridiculous,” she said.

“Well,” he said, wincing at the soreness as he adjusted his seat in the straight-backed wooden chair, “at least the chairs are nice.”

“You would think,” she said, apparently not having heard, “that she would be, oh, I don’t know excited to see her sister who’d she thought was dead. Instead, it is the same games as always, the same stupid demonstrations of power. All nobles play the game to a degree, I suppose, but Isabelle has always been the worst—or best—at it, depending on your view. Still, I would have thought she’d grown out of it, changed by now. It has been many years since I’ve seen or spoken to her.”

“My experience,” Aaron said, “People don’t change unless they’re made to, and I don’t think

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