The Honor of Duty

by A.R. Rend

No other man has ever interested me even in passing. Before you, men were just… women without boobs. Boring, unattractive, and entirely unimportant to me.

You yourself are bound to hurt her eventually as well, you know. May you have the same mercy you would expect her to have, for you.

“I likely think that after this the family might wish to pivot away from the queen’s service. It doesn’t do any good for us to serve a master that would throw us away like this.

“Lor, there’s a young man here and-” “And he’s married and likely eats more pink-slit than a fisher-woman going for clam,”

After all… tradition isn’t the worship of ashes, it’s the preservation of fire.