IN THE FOREST OF THE LOST

[beathollow]

it's all too perfect.

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[ledbythewind]

[Ah, what a familiar sight. It's familiar, and that's exactly why he hates it, because he knows this sort of thing is nothing more than a pretty cover for empty words and shallow exchanges, a chance for people to try to bend others to their will with gilded words.

That's how these things always go, and that's why Richard is far more interested by whatever is behind that curtain than he is the tableau itself.]

[beathollow]

The maid shakes her head, pleading-

The Queen doesn't allow these items! I don't know how they keep getting in.

[ledbythewind]

[Hmmm. Can he see just what sort of items she's referring to?]

[beathollow]

...

If he cranes his head, he can see...

A baggie of sugar cookies, cups of apple tea and hot chocolate, and...

Arven's sandwiches?

[ledbythewind]

[... huh. Those look like perfectly ordinary things to him?

But being royalty, he's well aware of how some things are considered inappropriate for one's social station...

How cruel. What child wouldn't want those treats?]