Akavir and Beyond
This day has started early for Iriisii, the responsibilities of being Empress bring with it neverending responsibilities. She has been going over the the usual papers needing her seal. Diplomats wanting audiences to discuss political matters, exchanging platitudes and promises that she knows will never come to anything. There was something that crossed her mind recently, actually over breakfast this morning as Lord Blackwell gave her the itinerary for the day. And she wished for something exciting to happen to take her away from all of this. Then she remembered that saying that she herself has used from time to time, 'be careful what you wish for, you might just get it'. And that unnerving feeling of gastric distress that came over her in that moment. The memory has been hanging over her like a dark cloud all day, it is dusk and nothing has happened. She thinks to herself, 'just the rest of the night to go now. What is the worst that can happen?' ...