inconvenience

[swan_tower]

I have not spoken with my own voice in nearly seven years.

Great, just what I need. "Kingspeaker" has acquired a first line. I've got the Driftwood story I started at ICFA; I don't need this pestering me, too. Let's hope the lack of plot idea keeps this one in check. (I'm deliberately not letting myself write the next line -- something about how the priests ritually took her voice away when they gave her the king's -- because that way lies narration, description, things that might turn into plot.)