The Queen of Quill by Philip Hamm

Author:Philip Hamm [Hamm, Philip]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-04-22T22:00:00+00:00

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Alone in their cabin with Tringa, Nacyon collapsed on the bed. He had been up and down the stairs all day and half the night. His legs ached beyond endurance and his mind was abused beyond belief. He had never known anyone so demanding, not even Prince Rhatany. No sooner had he brought her one thing than she wanted another. It wouldn’t have been so bad if she’d thought ahead and asked for a group of things at once – but she would ask for a spoon, and when he returned, a knife, and when he came back, a fork. “I think she does it deliberately,” he said. “Just to see how far she can push me.”

“I’ve had to lock Stilt in her cabin,” Tringa said. “She’s distraught over Boatman and what the Queen might be doing to him.”

“Believe me, you don’t want to know.”

Zizania had no shame, either about bedding the assistant engineer or about doing it in front of Nacyon when she rang for him. He’d tried to avert his eyes as he listened to her requests but it was impossible not to know what she was up to.

Tringa said, “If she wasn’t the Queen, I’d throw her into the vacuum.”

“That’s what Rhatany is hoping we’ll do.”

The captain shook her head, “I don’t like to say it but, isn’t he right? We can’t have a Queen like Zizania on the throne. She’s mad...”

“Madness never stopped some of our old kings from ruling; Zizan the Ninth wanted everyone to quack like a duck on his birthday and they say Rhizome the Tenth never did anything unless he’d consulted his chicken first. The fifteenth King Kakapo glued feathers to himself and jumped off the Royal Platform to his death.”

“I wish Zizania would think of that.”

He sighed, “I’m sure Prince Rhizic would make a better monarch in the long term – if he could be pried away from Rhatany’s influence. The King and Queen did their best with him and never wanted Zizania – but that’s the whole problem. If they’d loved her more, she wouldn’t be the way she is. But Prince Rhizic does what Rhatany tells him and right now, we need Zizania to put a stop to his plans to start a war with Zamut.”

“And how is she going to do that if she’s too busy fornicating with every pretty boy who comes along?”

“At least she doesn’t listen to the opinions of chickens.”

“Does she think at all or is her brain just focussed on sex?”

“Pater save us,” he said, sitting up suddenly and wincing at a twinge in his back.

“What’s wrong?”

“Boatman is the first male Quill she’s ever slept with...”

“So what?”

“She could become pregnant...”

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