03: Reluctant Devotion
Ozorne goes to great lengths to make sure that she is comfortable in her new home. He fixes the bed and the pillows, gets the curtains adjusted, and changes the décor of their room from gold and silver to various shades of blue. He makes time to take her to the menagerie, and lets her feed his birds whenever she wishes. From the lands he has conquered, he brings her little trinkets and pretty things.
When Siraj falls to his rule, one of the presents he gives her is a box of something small and brown and square and sweet. It had been a little gift from the rebel king of Siraj. Something called chocolate. It was rather valuable, and a great delicacy. The king had been rather reluctant to part with it, but, as Ozorne put it, "You face death by poison tomorrow. Wouldn't you like to give your Empress a present, before your…passing?"
Kalasin knows nothing of that, and enjoys her chocolate, laughing over how sweet and delicious it is, and he is slightly ashamed at how content her smiles make him.
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