EPISODE 44 - THE KINGDOM SWALLOWED BY SILENCE

(POV Queen Urchoicha) Badney is serving us these... curious pastries. They look like stones. Let's just hope they don't taste like them too. "Hallorha!" she chirps, beaming as she sets them down. "Hehreh arrre my spehcihal sweehts! Pleahse, helhp youhrselves, they'rre so cruhnchy! Toh whaht doh we oweh thish visiit?!" Oh, for the love of— Did she just spit in my eye ?! After all these years, hasn't she done anything about that atrocious speech defect? I wipe my face, then—reluctantly, I admit—pick up one of those... things. Bàistec looks just as repulsed. Enough of this. Time to get to the point. He gives me a small nod. I turn to the troll sovereigns. "We've discussed this at length," I begin smoothly. "We'd like to propose an alliance... to conquer the Great Universal Kingdom." Scrios…