Soren at Three

Sophia's POV

By three years old, Soren had developed opinions about council sessions.

This was not, strictly speaking, my fault. I had begun bringing him when he was two — not formally, not with ceremony, but because the alternative was leaving him with the nursemaid during hours when he was at his most alert and most likely to communicate his displeasure with the systematic thoroughness he brought to displeasure in general. The council sessions suited him. He sat at my knee ...