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« on: June 21, 2016, 02:26:51 pm »
Grifen stared out at the assembled crowds, still shaken but thinking more quickly than almost any other time in her life.
"Guys...everyone, please..." Her voice trailed off; she had been about to ask everyone to rise, but had remembered at the last moment that she was one of the shortest in the room. If everyone rose, she'd clam up for sure and no one would be able to hear her! She tried again, this time raising the Crown Blade up for all to see.
"I'm sure this all comes as a pretty big shock to y'a--you. I know ya must have a million questions to ask, and I wish I could answer more than a few of 'em right now. Trust me, I'm about as lost as you at the moment!
"This is the important part: I am a direct descendant of the first Emperor Troy Lionheart, and my friends and I came here to change the world. The weeks and months to come will be rough and full of new things, but for now we aren't gonna focus on that." The nomad gazed sadly at Julius' body, and at that of the former Emperor. She wondered if she could have treated whatever made him so sick.
"We all lost people today, people we cared about. Before anything else gets done, we need to take the time to mourn the ones who died fighting for what they believed in, and heal the injured. Guess ya can consider that my first order as Empress."
Even Grifen knew that there was a lot of other things to do, messengers to send out, stuff like that, but she didn't want to get too far ahead of herself. Let the empire - and herself! - take just a moment to consider what had happened.