His Highness Heard That: A Crown, A Fan, and One Man's Catastrophically Loud Inner Monologue
Kurt Weston is twenty-one, and was mid-way through a steamy bath scene when the universe decided he had somewhere better to be.
He lands - without warning, without consent, and without finishing the chapter - in the judicial court of the Kingdom of Lunaris, sitting on a ceremonial stool in borrowed robes next to fourteen ministers who all appear to know what they're doing. He does not know what he's doing. He does, however, immediately notice that the Crown Prince on the dais has remarkable hands.
This is, as it turns out, the least of his problems.
Crown Prince Augustus Gunter is twenty-six, composed to an almost architectural degree, and in possession of a gift he has spent fourteen years turning into a precision instrument: he can read minds. One at a time, with focus and discipline, he has built a judicial reputation on a foundation nobody suspects. He has heard greed, fear, ambition, and mediocrity in every configuration. He has never, in fourteen years, encountered anything like Kurt Weston's mind.
Kurt's mind does not follow the rules. It arrives uninvited. It broadcasts continuously. It solves complex legal cases and immediately pivots to naming a fly Gerald and drafting imaginary scenarios in which a senior minister's sash achieves independence mid-session. It thinks, with increasing frequency and decreasing ability to suppress itself, extremely specific things about the Crown Prince.
Augustus raises his fan.
It is the story of what happens when the most private thing you have turns out to have been heard all along - and the one who heard it stayed anyway.
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