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sibilantlyFandom: Inception
Pairing: Arthur/Eames
Word count: 100
Carol prompt: The Boar's Head
Summary: After war comes the messy business of peacetime.
Pairing: Arthur/Eames
Word count: 100
Carol prompt: The Boar's Head
Summary: After war comes the messy business of peacetime.
Eames has spent the whole journey rehearsing.
And so he stays composed, even as he's forced to present his father's war reparations on his knees; to slice the roasted boar for the Empress like a peasant.
But then the Empress' Captain of the Guard - Arthur - pulls Eames aside, and insists he eat first.
"Why?" Eames narrows his eyes. "You believe I'd try to poison your Empress?"
Arthur snorts. "You Northerners. You're so duplicitous, you assume everyone else must be, too. It's our custom that honoured guests eat first."
"I thought I was a political hostage?"
Arthur smiles thinly. "You're both."
