“In Krasnegar the king spent less time on the mainland than was his custom at that season, and more with his children. Gradually a certain very frightened boy began to adjust to his uncanny new talent. He did not go insane, as his father had feared. In the splendor of the Opal Palace the imperor clung to life, weakening steadily and rarely seen. Rumor-and there was always rumor in Hub-contended that he was failing and could no longer cope with the immense workload he had always handled so ea...sily. Recalling an unhappy regency eighteen years previously, the wags whispered jokes about a pressing need for faun sorcerers. Princess Eshiala continued to decline almost all social invitations, while pursuing her studies in elocution, music, deportment, jurisprudence, literature, equitation, poetry, history, interior design, piscation, geography, constitutional law, theology, venery, and all the many other matters with which a future impress was expected to be conversant.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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