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Outside these walls, people still struggled to meet his eyes directly. Senior court officials corrected themselves mid-sentence when they noticed the slightest shift in his calm expression. Even ministers who had spoken to him brazenly during his years as grand prince now carried themselves with amusing caution around him, understanding far too late that the silence he cultivated had never been submission. That the puppet they presumed they were allowed much control to manipulate was never theirs to begin with.
And yet here he was still, beneath his sleeping wife while she snored softly atop his chest, entirely unaware that the ruler of their constitutional monarchy was currently debating whether ditching his duties for the entire morning to be tangled with her a little while longer was worth the wrath of the people he ought to attend to.
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- Part 4 of all in foresight