Chapter 200: Implications Of The Ring

Chapter 200: Implications Of The Ring

Lord Leville cleared his throat with a pompous flourish, holding the ring between thumb and forefinger as though it were a jewel plucked from the heavens.

"Your Majesty," he began in a booming voice, "you will never believe the ordeal I endured to bring this to your most exalted notice. It began at dawn, when I set out most piously to the temple... to pray, of course, for Your Majesty’s long reign, for the prosperity of the Empire... and for my wife’s cursed geese, who lay fewer eggs than stones in a riverbed."

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