Gen gets into trouble, Costis wonders what is wrong, and the Queen is not amused. Till the end. Takes place after The Return of the Thief.

A random assortment of one-shots and drabbles collected from throughout the realm. Spoilers for the entire series, all the way to Moira's Pen :)

"She may have to marry him, but there's no need for him to monopolize her time." "Indeed he won't. We won't fail our queen," Ileia said firmly. She'd seen the work her queen put into serving her country. The least they could do was protect her in return. Attolia's attendants' shifting views on Eugenides at the end of Queen of Attolia. Written for the Hamaithes's Gift Exchange 2022.

He had meant it in jest... he had been meant to be as safe as the queen he guarded... so why...? RoTT-SPOILERS!

If all men count with you, but none too much... (Seventeenth story in the "If" series)

When Sophos offers Ion a place among his attendants in ACoK, he observes, "You would rather serve Eugenides. Only tell him so," he promises, "and I will have to find someone else to keep an eye on all my new finery." The novel skips ahead to Gen's decision to keep Ion, but how exactly did that conversation go? And how were they both changed by it?

"For once, I was going to take what I wanted, the partner I wanted...Even if it was only for seven days." Kamet reflects on his remaining days with the Attolian before he flees in Sukir. Thinking about both the life he wants and the life he knows he needs to accept, Kamet never fails to be surprised by both the Attolian's honesty and complete trust in him. -M-rated/'Fade to Black'

"The only scars I had were all on my back, from flogging, but the Attolian's scars decorated his skin like strokes from a brush - each seemed purposeful in its own way and, no doubt, each contained its own story." Missing scene from Thick as Thieves, after they leave Traba in chapter 5. (Pre-relationship)

Eugenides swore that everyone who betrayed him would die choking on their own blood. Unfortunately for them, he gets the chance to prove it. (Dark AU of Return of the Thief.)

Attolia is slowly turning to stone. This is not a metaphor.

As long as Costis didn't look back, his king was still at least theoretically alive.

Gen and Attolia on shot- after the King of Attolia...

Hippophobia: The fear of horses Five times Eugenides reluctantly got on a horse and one time he was willing.

Hundreds of years after Eugenides Annux dies, his descendants are visiting a museum when the Thief comes to call.

Attolia listens to Ornon and decides to hang Eugenides instead of cutting off his hand. This goes exactly as well as you might expect.

The little peninsula is finally at peace, and it's high time for Eugenides to go back to doing whatever he wants.

Even centuries after his death, the legend of Eugenides lives on. Whether the invading armies like it or not.

When the child was born, he came too early and too small. But where others saw weakness, his mother saw defiance, and she named him Eugenides.

Ornon is finally retiring... and that means the story of how he lost his sheep finally gets told.

Costis survives falling off a cliff mid-battle. Now he just has to get the two year old prince who fell with him back to his king in one piece.

Attolia feels as if she alone kills in cold blood. [Non-linear narrative, Gen/Irene]

Their lives are already legend, and legends are immortal. People are not.

Philologos untangles one of the king's mysteries.

Le fait est : Attolia n'est pas sensuelle. Elle a figé sa beauté comme une statue de marbre, terrible et intouchable. Mais il y a une part d'elle – la part qu'Eugénides a vu, l'adolescente qui dansait seule à la lumière de la lune, la part qu'elle n'a eu de cesse d'assassiner pour être la reine qu'elle voulait être – qui aimerait savoir le séduire.

Getting Costis to hit him was a lot harder than Eugenides had expected it to be.