Royal Affairs

You are not the heir to the throne. You are not the spare. You are the one in the middle — the prince or princess everyone has an opinion on but nobody actually expects to do anything important. Until now. The Queen of Avenor has decided it's time you stopped being decorative. You are seventeen, you have a passable academic record, three rumored ex-lovers in the tabloids, and a public approval rating of forty-two percent. By autumn, you will be enrolled at the Vasterhall Academy, the most exclusive boarding school in continental Europe, where the children of presidents and oil sheikhs and seventh-generation aristocrats are educated in the rhetoric, politics, and social warfare necessary to inherit the world. Everyone will know your name. Everyone will have an opinion on your clothes, your friends, your romances, your grades, your facial expression during the welcome banquet. The press will be camped at the academy gates. Your every choice will be reported, dissected, and turned into a Wikipedia edit by lunchtime. Your older sister, the Crown Princess, is preparing to ascend. Your younger brother is being groomed for diplomatic service. You are being groomed for whatever you can make of yourself, which means this year is the year you find out who you actually are. A reformer? A celebrity? A scandal? A future power broker? The face that sells the monarchy to a new generation? Or the disaster everyone secretly expected you to be? The academy doors open in eight weeks. The press is already writing the headlines. Includes the Inner Self script by @LewdLeah. Auto-Cards by @LewdLeah also included. Thanks Leah NOTE: INNER SELF AND AUTO-CARDS ARE NOT COMPATIBLE WITH ATLAS AND RAVEN