Tadek and the Princess by Alexandra Rowland

Author:Alexandra Rowland [Alexandra Rowland]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2024-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

So then he was eight, and it was his second year at the academy. Now, in addition to schooling, his superiors began giving him little jobs to do—carrying messages thither and yon about the palace, sorting rice and flour in the kitchens, setting and clearing the tables in the mess halls of the academy dormitories or the kahyalar’s barracks, or carrying out bowls and platters of food at mealtimes.

He liked it. He enjoyed school, but he’d begun to feel a little stifled and bored—the jobs gave him something to do and the opportunity to go places that he normally had no business being in, and to meet people he would otherwise have never encountered, and to stick his nose into places it probably didn’t belong, and to work off some of his excess energy. Over a few months, he built up a mental map of the palace just as detailed as the one he’d had for the entire city sprawled below the palace plateau, or nearly so. There were still a few areas that were foggy—he’d never been inside the Gold Court, the innermost of the three areas of the palace complex, but he’d walked on the walls separating it from the Silver Court when he was carrying messages to some of the kahyalar appointed to watch shifts up there, and he’d looked out over the beautiful expanse of gardens and elegant residences, and he’d been struck nearly to tears by how calm, tranquil, and serene it was. He’d thought that it might as well have been a paradise. I want to go there, he’d thought. I want to walk in the gardens every day.

And he wanted to explore. He wanted nowhere in the palace to be off-limits to him. He wanted to walk every inch of it until he owned it, the way he’d walked every street in Kasaba City and owned that too. He wanted to be one of her Highness’s core-guard. He wanted to stand guard shifts with Çan and the others.

A plan arose in his mind.

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