Re: your 'ask about a wip' inbox game, I'm quite curious about 'better living thru 14th centruy legal shenanigans'!
(And does it have any relation to your 'Third Hand of Justice' academic fic on westerosi post-GoT legal developments?)
Hello! I'm flattered by the curiosity. But no, "Better Living..." isn't connected to "The Third Hand of Justice." ("The Squiring of Alla Stone" is not incompatible with "The Third Hand," exactly, though it does envision a slightly different future.)
Better Living Through 14th-Century Legal Shenanigans is something I'm tinkering away at related to Covington Cross, for which I've also written "Woman's Work." This is deeply obscure, but that's what 1990s BBC gets for reuniting Nigel Terry and Cherie Lunghi a decade after Excalibur.
On the third day, Richard came bearing apples and his father’s apologies. “The court,” he explained, peeling fruit with his knife, “is still in session.”
“I thought your father had been dismissed from his position. By no less a personage than the chancellor of England.”
Richard did not quite grimace. “From his role as the king’s justiciar, yes. But his responsibilities to his tenants are unchanged.” He held the sliced apple out to Lady Isabel with a steady hand. Elizabeth wished she could tell him she was proud of him. She wished she could ask about the miller, and the migrants who had naively tried to bribe Thomas with pie. But asking about something Thomas had told her between midnight and dawn felt, under her mother’s sharp green gaze, dangerous.
