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All Mika knows is service. An apprentice tailor in a remote border town, he struggles to care for his ailing father, keep up their decrepit shop, and make tithe to Lord Ersu, the nobleman who murdered his mother. Alternately shamed and desired for his effeminacy, he has learned to see himself as others see him: as a means to their ends. When a knight of the queen comes to town, Mika must make a choice between the life he has known, and the desires he has only begun to imagine. But how free are any of us, held at the mercy of forces greater than ourselves? Updates every two weeks on Saturday. Content warning for transmisogyny, gender dysphoria, sex, sexual assault, and graphic violence / mutilation.