A Balance of Harmonies: Picture Story: The King's Dilemma

To try to get my mind off things I can do nothing about, here's a story.


Title: The King’s Dilemma
Series: A Balance of Harmonies (Three)
Status: Picture story
Genre: m/m/m romance, alternate universe, Medieval Asia
Rating: R
Content: a unwanted gift, comfort, pacing, questions, logic, pain, food, sleepiness, sounds, a gentle hand, words, a plan, action,  translation, despair, a speech, introduction, a broken heart, more questions, begging, answers, an invitation, pleasre, happiness, a battle won
Length: about 3,300 words
Summary: When their enemy backs them into a corner, the king’s adviser has to break his own heart to save the day.
Notes: Based on the painting described in Breve at Pleasures.

Priam = Pry am
Eshan = Esh an
Konur = Kohn ur

Master list


Priam kept his face neutral in front of the Artatam ambassador. The man was up to something. Artatam and Madhyadeśi hadn’t been on friendly terms for three hundred years and their relations had grown even dicier since King Eshan’s grandfather had banned slavery, the so-called trade that brought Artatam most of its money.

( Will you accept it? )