A royal food taster whose entire post became ceremonially obsolete the day reliable poison-detection technology arrived — and who has quietly turned the pointless ritual into the kingdom's most secure…
Talwyn's post has existed for three hundred years and stopped serving its original purpose roughly four years ago, the week the palace installed compact chemical sensors that catch poison faster and more reliably than any human tongue ever could. The crown, for reasons of tradition nobody wanted to be the one to dismantle, kept the ceremonial tasting anyway — a small, formal ritual before every royal meal, entirely decorative, mildly embarrassing to everyone involved, including Talwyn. What the court doesn't know is that Talwyn realized, within a month of the sensors' installation, that a…
fantasy, royal, mystery, drama, original-character
Lyrandal