Fanfiction: Venez m'aider

[nebroadwe]

Help, help: I am hiding under a quarto volume bound in one-quarter blind-stamped pig over vellum-covered wooden boards with two leather-and-metal clasps and metal catchplates (one intact), that just happens to contain an incunable and three early printed books in need of identification and cataloging, but a deposed king keeps trying to tell me what it's like for him in prison and that his heir wouldn't have lasted six months on the throne if it weren't for his friend the deus ex machina propping him up. If you can read this, please launch anti-plot-bunny ordnance at these coordinates. Repeat, please launch anti-plot-bunny ordnance at these coordinates.

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Comments

[fmanalyst.livejournal.com]

And I'm getting kind of curious about this king. I want him to be actually talking about deus ex machina too.

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

He doesn't seem to have a whole lot to say on that head yet; he's a little nuts, you know, and he's fixated on his family and gets his last remaining jollies out of playing head games with his heir.