*Kaelyn’s saga continues, by u/ParvitasRose and yours truly. I’ll post links to parts 1 and 2 in the comments.*
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*ParvitasRose*
Kaelyn had never been more tired in her entire life. She had been on her knees for hours, from the moment she arrived at the steps to The Sacred Throne, she had been prostrate. Even in the hours when Henrik and the others had been allowed to sit and dine with His Supremacy, she had been on the floor.
First prostrate and doing nothing, then, used as a side-table — despite there already being plenty of actual table that He could have used.
Was this her punishment? Was this how His Supremacy was going to punish her for the… intransigence… of not attending the Term of Sacred Service? To make her crawl like an animal and use her as a table and footrest? For her to be humiliated and degraded when the rest of the Islish delegation were given permission to eat and act… as normally as one could when in His presence?