Beyond the royal gates

Chancellor Honorius Honk

The Goose With the Correct Form

A conquest, properly stapled.

Honorius used Peregrine’s disputed ancestry to seek permanent access to the Seven Ponds and control over premium-breadcrumb routes. His evidence was persuasive; his purpose was not benevolent. Peregrine exposed the arrangement before the tribunal and the geese left without concessions. Honorius is an external political adversary, not Odette’s relative by default. Shared feathers are not genealogy, however convenient the gossip.

He does not raise his voice. He adds an appendix.

Compare each duck at the same life stage, not the same calendar date. Dates and ages appear with each portrait. These are fictional calendar seasons, not published story seasons.

Hatched

Coronation season

Current age

87 seasons