Title: Let Me Not Eat Cake
Fandom: Long Live the Queen
Rating: PG
Length: 100 Words
Content Notes: Reference to in-game character death.
Author Notes: The game only looks cute. In truth, 'tis quite vicious.
Summary: Being a monarch can make ordinary pleasures seem sinister.

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"Curious that a girl of your years has no interest in sweets, Your Majesty," said the functionary, "but I suppose that they cannot appeal to everyone, in the end."

"That is so," Queen Elodie said, looking down at the slice of chocolate cake on her plate, "and it is not that I have a strong aversion to sweets. Far from it, in fact. But —"

I remember when I received a box of chocolates that had poison inside of them. And I remember the face of the man who perished after eating one.

But she said nothing of that.

END.