Prologue: Pastime With Good Company

"Her parents were married, but that had seemed to create no great affection between them, and what was a wife in a world in which mistresses were as common as servants, and monogamy as rare as an Earthen eclipse?" Between a throne, two children, and a horribly dark pastime, Marrok and Jannali preferred to keep their passionate love hidden from the world. A prequel to Fairest.