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A Bargain for Her Majesty by forgotteninkling for ihamtmus
Fandoms: The Queen's Thief - Megan Whalen Turner
21 Aug 2026
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Rumours spread like locusts through the palace after the Queen of Attolia’s political marriage. Speculation about the new king’s purportedly empty bed was a subject of particular relish to the gossip-mongers, and, although none would give speech to such vulgarity in the queen’s presence, Attolia was well aware of the rumours. She had ears for listening, after all, and where those ears could not reach, she had informants.
It amused her that, for once, the gossipers were not entirely wrong. For the king’s bed was indeed empty many nights—empty of the king himself.
Set in the early days after the marriage of Attolia to the Thief of Eddis: in which the newlyweds are secretly affectionate, the attendants ignorant, Eugenides commits a spot of thievery, and Attolia gets the best of the bargain.