Prince of the Icemark
“The new King really was just a boy – a particularly tall and sturdy-looking boy, but just a boy nonetheless. Athena was sitting proudly on her horse, next to her mother and father and just ahead of Saphia, at the main southern gate of the city. They’d managed to intercept the Icemark embassy before it could actually set foot on the streets of Bendis, and the Basilea was now delivering an official address of welcome while Redrought tried not to look bored and the old woman next to him did nothin...g to disguise her expression of annoyance.
While her mother continued her formal speech, Athena secretly scrutinised the King and dismissed him as ugly. Well, not exactly ugly, perhaps, but most of the sixteen-year-old boys she’d ever seen had quite delicate, almost girlish features, whereas Redrought looked as though a sculptor had started to carve the face of a statue and hadn’t quite got to the stage where the features were smoothed down and finished off. His brows jutted out over his eyes like a shelf, and his cheekbones and chin were huge blocks of .MoreLess
While her mother continued her formal speech, Athena secretly scrutinised the King and dismissed him as ugly. Well, not exactly ugly, perhaps, but most of the sixteen-year-old boys she’d ever seen had quite delicate, almost girlish features, whereas Redrought looked as though a sculptor had started to carve the face of a statue and hadn’t quite got to the stage where the features were smoothed down and finished off. His brows jutted out over his eyes like a shelf, and his cheekbones and chin were huge blocks of .MoreLess
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