Chapter 199 — Daphne POV
It's been… a time.
And by "time," I mean a stretch of days so ridiculous even the talking mirrors have stopped commenting.
First came the Frog Prince.
No, not the romantic, green-skinned charmer from the songs.
This one flat-out refused to return to human form.
Why?
Because he had fathered a small brood of tadpoles while cursed, and—his words, not mine—"royal duties feel less fulfilling when your children have gills."
I might've understood… until I learned what his mother, the Queen, did.
She summoned a sacred koi—an ancient, glimmering beast from the royal temple pond—and had it devour them.
Yes. She fed his frogspawn to a fish.
I arrived just in time to stop him from throwing himself into the moat in grief.
I turned him human again, against his will. And yes, I sided with the Queen.
He might be grieving, but we can't have a crown prince hopping around in lily pads, fathering pondlings, and refusing to speak in full sentences.
