The Game of Courts (Lays of the Hearth-Fire #0.6)

by Victoria Goddard

Conju did not like Fitzroy Angursell’s poetry and had never read Aurora; he thought that if the Imperial Censors had banned it they must have a good reason; the stories of the Red Company irritated him for how topsy-turvy and irregular they wanted society.

plssss ripppp

Eventually Conju found one of the Palace libraries and flirted with the librarian until the man would find him encyclopedias of tools and practical objects.

LOL

It had been a long time since he had last fallen in love with someone.

omggg

and regretfully decided the man was genuinely being friendly, not flirting at all.

LMAOOO SO REAL. god i love to see asexual!kip from outside povs

“I see you’ve met the new secretary,” Ludvic said the next time they happened to be in the refectory at the same time. “What do you think of him?”

tehehehehe

(This time he knew it was because the man was buried under the weight of channelling a broken government up to his Radiancy. Not entirely impossible, indeed. Conju was almost proud.)

“A splendid effect,” the new secretary said, glancing up at his Radiancy with an expression so admiring it was almost openly adoring. That was not for the gold paint, however intricate the design; that was for the Lord Emperor himself.

tehehehehehehe

and the ones where the overconfident were brought low.

very victoria goddard coded