Challenge #04779-M030: Those Were the Days

King Nydon is gone, and the jubilation from his fall was real. Yet now years have come and gone, allowing memories of how bad things were to fade, had leaving King Reginald to deal with a burgeoning nostalgia for his father’s reign.

[Follow up to: https://peakd.com/fiction/@internutter/challenge-04632-l248-better-than-perfection ] -- Deathshead419

King Reginald of Bevuran and his Prince-consort Connow ruled wisely and well for decades. Raising a junior niece as the intended heir to the crown. Bevuran was no longer perfect, and many greeted that as a good thing.

A few did not.

"The streets used to be spotless," complained an old saw at the bar. "You could eat your breakfast off 'em. Horses and all the city beasts had to be trained to use a special privy. Now you don't see any of that any more. Gotta watch your step or clean it up yourself."

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