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Story commissioned by Zifflin

This series features Gay Sex, HumanXFeral,Dragon,Anal,Rimming,Oral,Cum,M/M

(King Reginald)

I sat on my father's old throne trying my best to pay attention to the conversation on hand. Blaze my four foot dragon with scales of scintillating red at my side nosed my hand in reproach. I sighed mentally and despite his playful nature he did softly snap at my hand which I admit did help me to focus more on the matter at hand. Blaze looked pleased at his subtle victory while I paid attention to the case in court being presented to me. Lady Catharine and Master Brutus had brought this case to the court today to resolve the manner of a faulty water wheel.

Now Catharine is a fiery busty red head wearing a soft purple dress. She runs the Loom & Weaving business in town. The device that powers her machines is the aforementioned waterwheel designed by Master Brutus. Lady Catherine has brought to the court the charge of refusal to fix her wheel against Master Brutus as a fortnight ago the wheel suddenly started to act strange. It would stop and start at random and it made a horrible shrieking noise as if the oil that helped to ease it's spinning had been siphoned off.

Catharine claimed to have checked this several times and as it is the sole reason her business has been doing well it is hard to believe that she would willing tamper with it. She reports that she called on Master Brutus at least three times in the last fortnight if not more to see about getting the wheel repaired. She was willing to pay the money for the repairs so long as it was working once more. "He refuses to be of help. Tells me that the wheel is fine...but my production has slowed down to half speed." she accused.

I held up my hand as she finished speaking then gestured towards Master Brutus to let him say his piece. He is dressed in a fine leather shirt that has seen some wear and tear and his hands are rough as he raises them to his face. A brief cough to clear his throat before his mellow tones spill out. "That Woman there is chasing after a fantasy that does not exist your Grace. Despite your tender years young sir I'm sure your aware when your being lied too."

Brutus huffed briefly before he continued as if he were still struck by the absurdity of the situation. "She neglects to tell you sir that I inspected her wheel three times. She was busy with customers at the time so she didn't see me outside looking it over. It works the same as it did the day I first installed it."

Mentally I ground my teeth. _Yes Blaze and I are young, but I wish everyone would stop throwing it in our face. We might only be fourteen winters but that doesn't mean that we are any less intelligent. _ Briefly Blaze showed me something in Brutus face that I had missed. The image sent to me by my faithful adviser showed that a muscle was twitching just under Brutus eyes. The feelings after the image seemed to advise caution in listening to his story. "_Thank you Blaze* _I replied mentally back to him before refocusing my attention to the man.

I heard the last part of his closing argument as my face slipped back under my usual mask. "So her insistence that I refused to fix her wheel is baseless." he finished and shot a brief satisfied look over to Catharine as if to say that he had already won.

Both parties turned their attention to me to see what I would say on the matter. I steepled my fingers and looked over both of them. Brutus muscle under the left eye was still twitching. Something about his story seemed to be to convenient. Especially the part about Catharine being to busy with customers to notice someone poking round her shop.

Blaze showed me another image. One of me and Brutus playing a game of cards and that telltale muscle twitch showing again. Of course neither I nor Brutus had every played a round of cards against one another. Still Blaze seemed to be nudging me towards such a venture.

"I propose something Lord Brutus. You know us young ones are so fond of games yes? Why not play me in a brief game of cards before I pronounce the verdict to this case?" Lord Brutus face was comical before he replied "What use is a game of cards in this case?" he looked to be indignant and whispers broke out behind him as the ministers behind questioned the sanity behind my choice.

"Surely a man of the world such as yourself has played many hands of cards right Master Brutus?" I questioned him innocently enough. "Well yes I have but." he started but I cut him off. "A game of twenty-one. two sets." I interrupted him and clapped my hands.

As if summoned by magic a table was brought up with a simple deck of cards in the center and two chairs. I sat in one and Master Brutus though he was glaring at me sat in the other. "I still don't see how this has any bearing on the case of the water wheel. "Perhaps your right...Lady Catharine would you care to play as well?" I asked her as if it were a friendly invitation. "I'm sorry your grace but i'm afraid I don't know the game. I would only be a hinderance." she replied sounding a bit unsure of herself. "Then you will be the person to deal the cards after they are shuffled." I told her and she stepped over to us.

I reached across the table and cut the deck. "Do you wish a refresher of the rules Master Brutus?" I asked him as I shuffled the deck of cards and passed it over to him. "The rules are child's play boy. Face cards equal their value, the Ace can be a one or a fifteen in value and the king, Queen, and Jack are worth eleven." he replied as he shuffled and then passed the deck to Catharine to deal. "Two cards. One face up. One face down." he tells her as she takes the deck then deals out the cards as ordered.

The first card revealed for Brutus is a seven of hearts. Then his face down is placed. For myself I get the king of Spades and then my facedown is placed. At the same time we both raise our face down cards. I keep my eye on Brutus face out of the corner of my eye while looking at my facedown. It's a seven of clubs. I place the card face down and then look over to him. "I Hold Master Brutus." I take my faceup card and place it cross wise over my facedown forming a Cross. I keep my eye on his face as I wait for his decision. "Deal me another card." he says to Catharine who places it facedown like before. "To keep this interesting Master Brutus...What is the cost of making another wheel for Catharine here?" He looks at me distracted. "About 300 pounds." he replies "Should you win this game I will pay that some to you for her work. However should you lose the game then you must replace her wheel for free." He smirked at me. "I assure you that I will win this silly game and be 300 pounds richer." One by one he flips over his cards and reveals an ace a two and a three. "I win." He says confidently. "So you do win the first round." I concede revealing my own cards. "An eighteen."

I gesture for Lady Catherine to gather the cards. "Just put them on the bottom and just deal like before." I tell her and she once more deals out our hands. This time though something fundmental has changed within Master Brutus. The muscle under his left eye has started twitching once more and I mentally smile before looking at the cards dealt to me a ten and my facedown is a jack. a perfect 21. I look over to his cards I see a four face up and the one face down well I don't know what it is but based on that twitching muscle it can't be good. "Deal me." he says and o the new card seems to make the muscle twitch more. "Deal me." he says and then his face falls. "Bust." he mutters disgustedly.

*Gotcha* I thought to myself. "Well we have both won a round" I say flipping over my cards. "Tie breaker." once more the cards are dealt and that muscle is getting a workout now. I glance at my cards a 6 face up and a four face down. An ace for Brutus and we both request a deal from Catherine. I get my card first and it's shown to be another ten. Brutus eyes gleam as he looks to me. "I've won." he says moving to flip over his cards. The first face up is of course the ace. "That's counting as a 15." he says before flipping the next card another ace. "That's a one." he goes to flip the final card but I stop him. "This game is decided...Brutus you are lying and for proof I show your twitching eye muscle." I stop him from flipping over the last card as the muscle spasms erratically. "This card will be another ace." I reply and true to my word as I flip it another ace is revealed giving him an astonishing 17. I reveal my cards with my free hand a twenty. "So you will now provide Lady Catharine with a free waterwheel at your own expense."

"This game was merely a reason to figure out if that twitching eye muscle meant what I thought it did...and I was right. It's your tell for when you lie. It spasms without you being able to control it. Guards!" within seconds Master Brutus was surrounded. "You will be escorted home to be started work upon the wheel and to make sure that you do it right you will be under watch until it's completion. Now go."

He was marched off and I got up from my seat taking the hand of Lady Catharine and giving it a simple kiss. "Fair Lady I wish your business well and that it may prosper." with that she was dismissed and though she was blushing she did bow as well before turning to leave. My ministers were whispering again as if I were a magician that just performed a grand trick that confounded them. I moved to sit back in my seat weariness catching up to me. Blaze nosed his head up under my hand in silent sympathy though I did not show anything of my weariness to these ministers.

The day wore on and thankfully no more grand performances were required of me. I wondered if i had done the right thing as Blaze and I made our way to my chambers. These doubts had kept creeping into my mind lately. Every night as we go to sleep i would worry over the day wondering if I was doing right. Wondering if I was doing enough.

Father had died a month ago and Blaze and I had been thrust into his life and job not soon after. I hadn't even had proper time to grieve him before the slave masters at court were on my head. I hoped that I was measuring up to my old man but I know that many of them just saw me as a simple minded boy that they could easily manipulate. Dad was an amazing king. Just, Fair, and beloved by the people. The nobles on the other hand not so much. I heard the whispers, the doubts of the people. I might be able to pretend that everything is fine while my inner turmoil raged on. But alone with my thoughts my mask slipped.

_I love you Dad, I miss you, I hope that I am being the king that you want me to be. That I am ruling the people fair and that I have your blessing wherever you are in the great beyond. _With that last thought I flomped into bed not even bothering to get undressed my thoughts dark and haunting.

_I am doing my best...but I'll never measure up to him. Everyone expects me to be amazing. A prodigy king that can spin straw into gold with just a smile. Everyone expects me to just have all the answers or just know exactly what to say." _ As my dark thoughts toiled on I began to cry softly. Only Blaze would be able to hear me of course but at this point I didn't care. My heart skipped a beat as my crying got worse imagining that I was such a disappointment to my father. I just wanted to be like he was. With everyone even if they didn't agree giving him respect. No one would have dared to whisper about him as the court had done about me today.

So wrapped up in my own head as I was I didn't even notice when I felt Blaze coil around me to hold me as if I were a sobbing infant and he were the wise parent.

TO BE CONTINUED...