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[candlemouse]

Heir to Light

96k words, completed, Garreth/Kendra, Ao3 & Wattpad

Medieval fantasy / Teen And Up Audiences

Relationships: Garreth/Kendra Sorenson • Eve & Seth Sorenson • Kendra Sorenson & Seth Sorenson • Garreth & Kendra Sorenson • Ronodin & Seth Sorenson • Patton Burgess & Seth Sorenson • Vanessa Santoro & Kendra Sorenson

Characters: Kendra Sorenson • Seth Sorenson • Garreth Dalgorel • Eve Dalgorel • Warren Burgess • Vanessa Santoro • Patton Burgess • Lord Dalgorel • Ronodin • Muriel Taggert

Additional Tags: Princess Kendra • Prince Seth • Happy Ending • Magic Revealed • Kendra POV • Seth POV• Alternate Universe - Fantasy • Alternate Universe - Royalty • Alternate Universe - Medieval • Patton Burgess Lives • Slow Burn • Angst • Minor Character Death • Magic • Romance • Political Intrigue • But like. Fantasy kingdom politics • BAMF Kendra Sorenson

Princess Kendra and Prince Seth were the heirs to a lovely kingdom—well, up until three days ago. With no available refuge after their kingdom gets sacked, the royal sorcerers and their companions try Terrabelle, their neighboring kingdom.

The target doesn’t fade from their backs, however—it only becomes hidden. With the curious Dalgorel children, who knows how long that façade will last?

If Kendra and Seth can’t brave their stay at Terrabelle, they may never regain their kingdom—or their grandparents.

Prologue

There was value in staying in the shadows. Seth knew this. Gleaning information and untangling motives was much easier when your subject didn’t notice you.

Rain slipped off his itchy coat as the city’s walls slowly solidified in the distance.

People always asked why he didn’t challenge his sister for the heir title. What a dumb question. First off, he loved his sister. Second of all, why would he ever want to relinquish his freedom and spend his life languishing in castle walls?

As it turns out, his languishing in a castle was about to happen anyway.

Meters away from the gates, the horses ground to a stop.

Moonlight glinted off his sister’s golden diadem as she removed her hood, letting raindrops seep into her hair. Seth surveyed the castle walls barring their entry. A lone sentry peeked through the gate tower.

The sentry had to shout over the thunder of the storm. “Who goes there?”

“Princess Kendra Sorenson, heir apparent of Fablehaven. Four of my associates join me.” Unlike the shouty sentry, her voice commanded the heavens without straining. “I request an audience with your king.”

Silence mingled with thunder as the sentry ducked out of view. Raindrops slipped off Seth’s hood as his horse shuffled in its step. “Steady, Noble.”

The sentry reappeared. “Where is King Stanley, Princess?”

“My grandfather’s whereabouts are not the concern of a sentry. Send for your king. It is urgent.”

“One moment, your grace.” With a flash of lighting, the sentry disappeared behind the tower.

Despite the disappearance of the guard, eyes were still watching. Seth could spot two peasants behind the gate, in the shadows of the lower town, spying on the royal court. He pulled his hood lower.

“Are you alright, Seth?” His valet shouted from behind him.

“Yes, thank you, Patton.”

The gates scraped against the muddy floor and revealed three men on horses. One lowered his hood, revealing a young man around Kendra’s age with a crown on his head. “Greetings, Princess Kendra. My name is Prince Garreth. I will escort you to the stables to leave your horses.”

“And then to your father, I presume?” Kendra pulled her hood back up, shielding the golden diadem from sight.

Lightning lit up the night—almost as bright as Prince Garreth’s smile. “Of course, my lady.”

The journey to the stables was fraught with security risks. He trusted Patton to always protect him of course, but the narrow road had forced the eight horses into a line. Rain and a weak crescent moon obscured the path. Thunder and the gossiping commotion of the common people peeking out their houses muffled any warning signal. Terrabelle was the most fortified destination, but it most certainly wasn’t the safest on the inside. Especially for certain people in their party.

As soon as the lanterns of the stable were in view, servants rushed forward to untack the horses. Seth leaned down to Noble’s ear. “Be a good horse.”

Mud sprayed from his boots’ impact to the ground. Patton joined him.

Sloshing, they made their way over to Kendra. Warren and Vanessa were already at her side.

Though their official titles don’t say it, the Head Chancellor and Kendra’s Lady-in-waiting all had trained as knights. Although Patton hadn’t, his time as an adventurer more than made up for it.

Garreth was already speaking by the time Seth took his spot next to Kendra. “—he’ll meet with you, Kendra, and our servants can lead your court to a common room for the night.”

“Actually, we’d all like to meet with King Dalgorel,” thunder paused Kendra. “We’re all seeking safe refuge.”

Garreth’s smile froze. “Of course. Anything for a lady as beautiful as you.” Seth almost snorted. “This way.”

The prince led them through the stables to a door that entered into the main castle. The walls were polished up to the high ceiling and decorated with flags and animal heads. There was no doubt in Seth’s mind that there was a shorter path to the throne room, but Garreth just wanted to lead them through the most impressive halls.

Water dripped from their wool coats onto the stone. Everyone’s hood was off now, revealing a silver crown upon Seth’s unruly hair.

“I admire your kingdom’s many conquests,” Kendra spoke to Garreth.

“Our kingdom is very powerful,” Garreth agreed. “You’ll be very lucky if the King grants you amnesty.”

The group stopped at an ornate door a mile high. Flickering firelight cast an ever-changing shadow over the door’s jewels and carved adornments.

Venom coated Kendra’s smile. “If?”

Garreth didn’t spare her a glance and pushed the door, splitting it in two. “Oh, look, we’re here.”

They had finally made it into the throne room.

Now, it was only a test of if they’d be allowed to stay.

Continue on Ao3 or Wattpad

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(this was an accidental repost, do rb the original instead)

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Accessibility takes too goddamn fucking long.

My brother was paralyzed in October 2023. We got him home from the hospital (in Texas, when we live in Iowa) in a clunky old hospital chair. He hated it. He was scared and angry and in pain and his life had just changed forever and he couldn’t do anything for himself in that wheelchair. His first goal (aside from learning how to transfer) was to get a wheelchair. My family was lucky enough to afford one so we thought it would be easy enough. Nope.

We couldn’t buy him a wheelchair. He needed a prescription. For a wheelchair. A doctor had to examine him and declare him in need of a wheelchair. It wasn’t good enough that he had scans and tests showing tumors cutting off his spinal cord. He needed his primary care doctor to examine him during a physical and write a prescription. He was making 2-4 transfers a day, tops. He had no energy to get to a doctor. Home health was in and out every day. He had no time to get to a doctor. He didn’t get a prescription for almost a month. Then it had to go through insurance.

We asked if we could skip insurance and just buy a wheelchair for him. Nope. They wouldn’t sell us one, not even at full sticker price. It needed to be approved by Medicare. We ordered a wheelchair, a nice one, a good shade of green, sporty, small. It would let him move around the house. He would be able to cook, to reach drawers and get stuff from the fridge and brush his teeth and put his contacts in at a sink. We were told it would take awhile, maybe two months. Silently we all hoped he would be around to see two more months.

He went on hospice care on a Saturday in March. On Monday, I was calling his friends to come see him before he died. I got a call on his phone. It was the wheelchair company. They were about to order his wheelchair, she said, but there was an issue with insurance— had he stopped being covered by Medicare? Well, yes. When he started hospice care, he got kicked off Medicare. The very nice woman I talked to told me to call her if he resumed Medicare coverage so she could order his wheelchair. He died less than 12 hours later.

We ordered that chair for him in early December. Medicare didn’t approve the order until March. He was dead before they got around to it. He wanted that fucking wheelchair so badly. The only reason he had any semblance of independence and any quality of life for the last five months of his life was because the wheelchair company lent him an old beater chair, a very used model of the chair he ordered. If I could go back and change one thing about his end-of-life, I would get him his dream wheelchair. He told me again and again he couldn’t wait to get it, so that he could feel like a person again. He made the best of what he had with that old beater chair, but it still makes me mad to this day. He was paralyzed. He needed a chair that afforded him dignity. We had the money for it. And yet, we were left waiting for five months, for a chair that wouldn’t even get ordered until the day he died.

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