The Velvet Ledger: Dispatches from the Queen's Table

Emma sat on the kitchen counter, swinging her legs and holding a walnut. "Bunny," she said. "If I wanted to travel through time, how would I do it?" Bunny looked...

Emma thought If the rules are clear, then they cannot change the rules. Because they said what they said. Everybody knows that. Except the walls had moved. The rules changed...

The Consultation (Filed under: Casualties & Why Archivarius Has That Twitch Now) Scene: The Archives. Quiet. Dusty. Safe. Archivarius is carefully re-shelving a manuscript that has taken him four months...

The Recruitment (Filed under: Attempted Coups & Why We Don't Leave Emma Unsupervised) Scene: The garden. Emma is digging a hole for reasons she has not disclosed. Sir Reginald approaches...

  The kind of awake that happened when someone else was sick. Or scared. Or small. Bunny padded into the room without being called. He never announced himself during Night...

Emma shared a lot of information about a rival kingdom in her ledger.. She shared all of the little thoughts and glitter things, and even the things that were hidden...

SIR REGINALD: (pulling out a second scroll) "I have also prepared a TIMELINE. Note the phased approach, the quarterly check-ins, the deliverables—" BUNNY: "The deliverables are YOU. Delivering YOURSELF. To...

Silence. Jack wiped his knife on the cuff of his sleeve, closed his ledger, and left without looking back. The Scribble was gone. The applause still echoed when the Queen’s...