Prince Byron Marcus Bryant - or, as he prefers to be called, Mark - has been in love with his servant and food taster, Oliver Ritz, ever since he was accidentally poisoned five years ago, but that's hardly his biggest problem right now. The King, his father, deeply despises aberrants, people with abilities outside the norm, and Mark... well, at least he's not the heir. The king wants him to be normal; Mark just wants to belong. The tension comes to a head at Mark's sister's engagement feast when a slow-acting drug gets past Oliver's test, and both men find themselves incapacitated and kidnapped.

To their surprise, they are rescued from their certain fate by a trio of young aberrant -- or atypical, as they call themselves -- women trying to gather supplies for their camp. Despite misgivings and fear of the King's vengeance, the girls grudgingly take the men back to their settlement of atypicals in the woods where they can begin to discover who they really want to be.

Tl;dr: A vaguely fantasy medieval royalty AU about finding love, trust, family, and acceptance when you’re not sure you deserve it.

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Fanfic by write_away

Podfic by bisexualoftheblade (podfic)