Empresses of Pangaea: The Clash of Queens [ BOOK 1 ]

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Location: Her Majesty's Study of Harmony, Main Palace Residence at the Royal Palace of Sekhe, West African State, African Lands

Later on, in the day Rehema retreated to her study to finish up, assigning who was going to have what house for each concubine in the harem hall.

A knock came at her door as she was writing with her cane pen on parchment.

"Who is it?" She called out.

A servant came out, "Your Majesty, his highness Ekon would like to see you." The servant said with a bow.

Rehema nodded not lifting her head up and focusing on writing. "Bring him in."

Ekon came inside and greeted her with a bow, "Peace and grace to her majesty."

Rehema out her pen down and smiled, "I told you, your exempt from having to bow to great me, your Emperor Dowager for crying out loud."

Ekon stood back up, "It's still my duty to properly great you, I will always show respect t-o the splitting image of your mother." Rehema couldn't argue with him on that he was always strict on respect and formality. Especially to people he looked up too.

Rehema motioned at him with her arm to sit at the seat in front of her.

"Have you finished assigning the houses for your harem," Ekon asked taking a seat.

"Yep," Rehema said. "Just finished right now." Amena then handed him five sheets of paper she had been writing on. "These are the concubines with the official houses they will have for now. They can start moving out of the guest building today or tomorrow."

Ekon took the papers from her hand and skimmed through the papers, reading it quickly. "Well, I see you gave the houses based on rank, this is good enough so far and fair."

"Yeah, I guess If they want a better house in the future, they will have to work for it," Rehema said leaning back in her chair. "Oh, supper should be ready soon, and it has been quite a day. Is there anything else you came for?" Rehema asked.

Ekon shook his head, "No, that is all. I will deliver this news to the rest of the men today, so they can start moving in."

Ekon stood up and was about to leave but then he stopped in turned. "Will you be having one serve you tonight?" He asked before he put his hand on the doorknob.

Rehema took a breath, "I'm not sure. I think its to early for me to pick one of the new ones since it their first day. I don't want to intimidate them so early on. I think I will just sleep with Omari today."

"Rehema..." Ekon said unsurely.

Rehema rolled her eyes, "Relax, I'm not going to be pregnant yet. And certainly not from Omari."

Ekon nodded doing so and left the room, closing the door behind her.

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Location: Official Emperor Dowager Harem Meeting Room, Harem Hall, The Royal Palace of Sekhe, West African State, African Lands

The rest of the day after the eight new concubines got to look around the palace complex. It was too huge to explore everything in one day, so whoever was tired retreated to the guest building in the harem hall. It was in the late afternoon that they got the news that their houses have been assigned to them.

Sang-chul was hanging with Ivan in his guest bedroom. Sang-chul was teaching him a different style of chess that they played in the East-Asian Lands before Addo came and interrupted them.