Sing With Kat

The King released me and at once everyone had taken the dishes off their plates of food. The smells that filled the room were delicious. My mouth watered as I took in zest, sour, sweet, and briny. Everyone else seemed to start to eat like this was a normal thing.

A little pang went through my chest. Here they all had enough to eat when back home a little girl had been arrested for trying to feed her family.

I felt like fists clenched and smoothed them back down.

I looked at the strange bits of curved metal that had been set down to the sides of my plate. Hesitantly, I picked one up and then dropped it with a surprised clatter. It had been very sharp.

I tried to watch what everyone else was doing and realized I was supposed to hold it in the middle. 

I dug into my food taking only a tiny bite.