New Story: The Adjusters #39

Here is April's installment of The Adjusters, “Charlie and the Convent of Oblivion (I)”, wherein we get a glimpse at what Jennifer Hansen wrote about her time since the infamous DIK-Bash.

As usual, comments welcome.

I'll also remind you that we have a Speculation Thread available for general discussion. (A thread which I read but do not comment on.)


The Adjusters #39 - Charlie and Convent of Oblivion (I)

Story by J. Dumas. First appeared in Flights of Erotic Fantasy
Magazine, Vol. 13, Nos. 7-8.

(1)

It was year four hundred and seventeen of the Renascence Era,
forty-one years since the Great Darkness War, one year past the end of
the reign of King Altobar the First, the Hero of the War, Bringer of
Peace. It was the first year of the reign of Queen Helena, daughter of
King Altobar the First, a reign that was destined to be unlike that of
her wise and just father. For Queen Helena ruled through fear and
repression, levying crushing taxes and imposing exhausting yield
requirements on peasants.

Rumors most vile floated throughout the kingdom about the Queen;
rumors that she was but a puppet in the hands of the real master of
the land, her cruel and ambitious Prime Chancellor; rumors that she
shared her bed with the Chancellor and allowed him the most perverse
liberties with her young body; rumors that the Court of Queen Helena
was one of vanishing morals and depraved indulgences.

The Royal Guard of late King Altobar the First, the elite knight troop
in charge of protecting the late king's person, was held to be
traitorous, accused of having orchestrated his assassination in a
cowardly fashion during a Blood Sacrifice Ceremony. The Royal Guard
was outlawed, and its knights were hunted throughout the kingdom, by
orders of Queen Helena herself. They were to be executed when found.


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Next month: “Charlie and the Convent of Oblivion (II)”.