King’s Sentence
Valorous King is ten years old when his family ship him to boarding school, just around the corner.
Valorous King appears in King’s Service and A King’s Man.
Rated T, 5k. Some young Valorous King coming to board at Idloes Academy. Thinking I’ll do some vignettes and bits of pieces in a loose series for this, just around Valorous and other kids, his teachers, and Myrddin Wyllt!
Content warnings for violence, grief, mental health issues, and difficulties with a child who’s traumatised and mentally ill.
Valorous didn’t say a word as Doctor Maybeetle led him up the stairs. He’d been attending Idloes Academy for six months, altogether — four months last term, when he’d come down from Alba to live with his Aunt Noble and his cousins, the summer holiday in between, and two months past.
They were coming into the beginning of November now, and Uncle Heinous had come to visit, and the time he wasn’t boring Valorous to pieces, he was apparently scheming to ruin his life, because he’d arranged for Valorous to board at Idloes. It was a Saturday morning, and mercifully, almost everyone was downstairs — he could hear the sound of no one upstairs in the dorms.
“You’ll be quite happy here with us, I’m sure,” said Doctor Maybeetle…
