Title: Rex

Fandom: Daughter of the Lioness Duology

Disclaimer: not my characters just for fun.

Warnings: spoilers for Trickster's Queen

Pairings: nada

Rating: PG

Wordcount: 130

Point of view: third


They killed his king.

After the storm, after the boat ride, after he carries Dunevon's body to the regents, he goes to his room and stares at the wall, thinking and planning and plotting.

His loyalty has only ever been to the king, to the little boy cursed as a Rittevon. His first and last loyalty.

And they killed him. They killed Dunevon, and three other little ones. Children lost to the waves.

They killed his king and hid behind magic to do it. He clenches his fists and grinds his teeth, and wonders where he can find vengeance.

And then the memory comes to him, the one challenge he's found—that spy who doesn't exist, the clever Aly.

He bares his teeth in what can almost be called a smile.