The Quieter Kingdom
7 Days
"So I drank red wine till my teeth turned blue…"
Susan doesn't remember the first party. She vaguely remembers the first boy, but both the parties and the boys started piling up so quickly that everything is just a hazy blur, and her memories are all accented with the sweet taste of champagne on the tip of her tongue.
She does remember Peter's reaction the first night she spilled into the house hours after her curfew had passed. He was incensed, talking so quickly her head spun faster than it already was spinning.
She breezed past him swiftly that night with a curt, "You rule no one here, King Peter."
