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This ended up a prequel to Support Beam.
Title: Dowager Behind the Throne
Author: purplekitte
Theme: OC--Control
Genre: Drama
Version: Anime
Rating: PG
Chalcedony looked uninterested as Prince Mozarkite ate. Wiseman had given her the poison, so it would work and she had his support. She kept looking uninterested even as he convulsed and fell to the ground.
She closed the door quietly behind her as she left, though letting it slam shut wouldn’t have mattered. “Is it done?” Geyserite asked her frantically.
She kissed him, lest he forget she was not giving up power as consort. The baby she carried might be his, might be his dead brother’s; genetic scan would tell when it was born, little as it mattered. “You are Prince now.” She had no plan to declare herself Princess. She hadn’t the raw power and her nearest royal ancestor was Princess Bloodstone four generations back. This was for her son.
Chalcedony went to find her son to tell him she had done away with his increasingly erratic and violent father. He was asleep in the nursery, as were her brothers’ daughters. Were they trying to insinuate them among White Diamond’s entourage as potential consorts? More likely their mothers had forgotten they existed again and they’d wandered off.
Why had the previous, now the twice-previous, prince consorted with that empty-headed floozy? It would take ages to get that much stupid out of the already inbred gene pool. Chalcedony’s sister’s daughter was much smarter and steady, but maybe too willful. Maybe a threat to her son, particularly if her second child was also strong enough to rule. Emerald, her youngest brother’s daughter, was at least enamored of Diamond. Her other droid-stupid niece, Citrine, favored her sister’s son Rubeus, at least for the moment. They were all many years from puberty anyway, so she had plenty of time to plan and direct.
“Diamond. Wake up, dear.” She smoothed his hair. “I have something to tell you.” He was awake instantly, because that was how one survived on Nemesis.
Title: Dowager Behind the Throne
Author: purplekitte
Theme: OC--Control
Genre: Drama
Version: Anime
Rating: PG
Chalcedony looked uninterested as Prince Mozarkite ate. Wiseman had given her the poison, so it would work and she had his support. She kept looking uninterested even as he convulsed and fell to the ground.
She closed the door quietly behind her as she left, though letting it slam shut wouldn’t have mattered. “Is it done?” Geyserite asked her frantically.
She kissed him, lest he forget she was not giving up power as consort. The baby she carried might be his, might be his dead brother’s; genetic scan would tell when it was born, little as it mattered. “You are Prince now.” She had no plan to declare herself Princess. She hadn’t the raw power and her nearest royal ancestor was Princess Bloodstone four generations back. This was for her son.
Chalcedony went to find her son to tell him she had done away with his increasingly erratic and violent father. He was asleep in the nursery, as were her brothers’ daughters. Were they trying to insinuate them among White Diamond’s entourage as potential consorts? More likely their mothers had forgotten they existed again and they’d wandered off.
Why had the previous, now the twice-previous, prince consorted with that empty-headed floozy? It would take ages to get that much stupid out of the already inbred gene pool. Chalcedony’s sister’s daughter was much smarter and steady, but maybe too willful. Maybe a threat to her son, particularly if her second child was also strong enough to rule. Emerald, her youngest brother’s daughter, was at least enamored of Diamond. Her other droid-stupid niece, Citrine, favored her sister’s son Rubeus, at least for the moment. They were all many years from puberty anyway, so she had plenty of time to plan and direct.
“Diamond. Wake up, dear.” She smoothed his hair. “I have something to tell you.” He was awake instantly, because that was how one survived on Nemesis.