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This is my gift for @Beesechurger1440 as a part of the @esmp-gift-exchange ! I hope you like it!

There's A Voice Inside of You (On The Edge of Coming Through)

Ship: Shelby/Katherine

Tags: Alternate Universe - Royalty, Magic, Mutual Pining

Summary: It was the day Princess Katherine's birthday ball, and Shelby couldn't help but thinking that things couldn't get any worse; she had failed to cure the Kingdom of the curse it had bared for years, and her feelings for Katherine were as unreciprocated and confusing as ever.

When two maids decided that enough is enough, Shelby and Katherine find themselves trapped with no escape, from both the cupboard and their feelings.

Word count: 5,358 words

Ao3 Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/60023872

Teaser:

Shelby looked at Katherine’s beautiful dress. “Your’s is gorgeous, Princess,” Shelby had said with awe in her voice. Katherine smiled at the floor, shaking her head. “It's not like I made it, Shelby,” Katherine had protested against the compliment, her black silk hair cascading down her shoulders and swaying with her gentle movements. “It's just a dress…” “But you just look so beautiful in it!” Shelby had gushed, hands waving generally over Katherine's frame. “You’re so pretty, Princess.”

This fic is a part of the Empires Gift Exchange 2025! The blog is;

@esmp-gift-exchange

This gift is for......

@v1neyy!

I hope you like it!!!

my gift to @rain-bow88 for the @esmp-gift-exchange! I drew the Seablings! I actually finished the piece a while ago, so though if I were to do it again now I would definitely do it differently, I also find it really fun to look back at how I drew just a few months ago, like a little art time capsule, and I’m really proud of the concept behind it!

As I said, I drew this a while ago, so I don’t entirely remember the thought process behind it, but the general idea is that I had been watching Jimmy’s pov of empires, and I was thinking it might be fun to consider why the music disc was so important to him, and the fact that he, a fish person, liked the sound of it, but everyone else found it weird, reminded me of stories where mermaids sound really amazing under the water but not so much in the air, so I had the idea that maybe it was the same song that Lizzie used to sing to him while she waited for him to hatch, but that it sounded unappealing to all the other emperors because they could only hear it above water. He couldn’t really remember where he knew the song from, but it was comforting to him (in my headcannons). Hopefully that makes sense lol, I think I’m explaining myself poorly. Idk, I hope you like it!