Loyalty
Home on a Snowy Night
I could hear the Noble Consort’s thoughts.
Inside her head, she cursed the emperor: “That decrepit bastard!”
“He’s much better at lecturing me than he ever is in bed!”
I looked up in shock.
She was nestled sweetly in the emperor’s arms, feeding him a slice of pear.
Inside her head, she was still raging: “Would someone please poison him already?”
“I’m so damn tired of serving him…”
