Fics like Dragon Heir

Sleep did not come easily. Baldric's fragmented dreams were full of possible futures, all equally terrifying: the final strike of the headsman's axe, the privations of imprisonment, or the endless humiliation of breeding dragons for the usurper king. He woke in the early hours of the morning, with his heart pounding and his mouth dry with fear, and lay in bed with his skin crawling as he contemplated what it would feel like to be stuffed full of eggs. He should have taken a true king's exit, fighting to the last man and falling on his enemy's sword, but it was too late now to make a last stand. - As Lord Wyman's campaign comes to a close, the young king he defeated makes a desperate choice to survive.