*Continued from Part 1…credit my partner in writing this, u/ParvitasRose. Posted with her permission.*
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*ParvitasRose*
Was this her punishment? Kaelyn wondered. To be forced to crawl like an animal while the rest were permitted to walk? To have to bow down towards Him while the rest of the guests were permitted to rise, eat, talk amongst each other and act as normally as one possibly could during dinner with His Supremacy.
Did He make her do this… because she had not gone on the Term? Or perhaps there was some other reason entirely. She wanted to ask Him, but she knew she could not. And even if she could ask such a thing, she wouldn’t. She feared what her punishment would truly be. Was her crown safe? Her country? Her people? Kaelyn did not know, and that, she thought, was far, far worse than if she had been told. Her mind kept going to the worst of possibilities.
Kaelyn’s body was aching. His Supremacy had made her crawl for almost an hour — while He was carried on a mobile throne and the others walked. Kaelyn had never crawled for that long in her life, and she never wanted to again. Her hands and knees stung, and she felt exhausted. She was not unfit by any stretch of the imagination. She could have walked that distance with no problem. But crawling?