The Chestnut King: Book 3 Of The 100 Cupboards - Plot & Excerpts
The eastern sea, at low tide, already darker, already angrier, seethed in the shadow of the city. The young man, slim and pale, could see them both from where he stood, leaning against a casement in his father’s inner room. He could see the streets as well and hear the faint rumblings of anger and fear and fighting along the canals. He could see the red shirts of soldiers holding the gates, sealing in heaving crowds of the unwashed and superstitious as they fled with their possessions wrapped in blankets and balanced on their heads, or mounded on donkeys or the long-necked fur mules of the south. The man’s name was Phedon, though few called him by it. His older brother was gone, and he was now the Serpent Prince. “Father,” he said. “The city is under siege from within. You imprison your people.” The old emperor creaked in a tapestried chair. “They are cattle, believing every rumor and lie and whispered tale.” He rose slowly from his chair, gripping a thick wooden cane, scaled, with three heads intertwined at the knob, and made his way to the window beside his son.
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