[Skirt Tsuki (keso)] Prince and Prisoner [NewsMedia]

A sheltered young prince wakes each morning in his canopied bed, where his hunched servant Igor dutifully brings him water and reassures him the terrors were only nightmares — but the reader soon learns the truth runs the other way. Behind the castle's stone corridors, men with 'reservations' line up for their turn with the delicate royal, leaving him limp and dripping on the cold flagstones while a humming video camera records every moment, and hoofed silhouettes lurk at the edges of his memory. Clutching to the fragile hope that 'when I wake up, they won't be here,' the prince drifts between drugged dreams and waking horror in a dark fairy tale where royalty itself has become the bait.