Protector Of The Empress (GxG)

Sixteen

I finished "Martha is dead" Great game, 10/10. I recommend.

Catherine had decided to bring Adelina with her to the city with Hyeon seeing how she complained about not spending time with her. It was going to be very cold so all three women wore fur coats of excellent quality. They were warm and soft. "This is not what I meant by spending time with you Catherine," Adelina whispered in her ear.

"We are spending time together are we not? You are never satisfied with anything." The empress replied. The older sister grew irritated and did something that was a bit too childish even for her. She pushed her sister into a pile of snow. Catherine nearly screamed when the snow hit the bare skin of her neck. She dragged her sister down with her and threw snow at her face. They kept going at it for a while until they were both much too cold to continue. "Apologies that you had to experience my OLDER sister's immaturity."

"Oh please, you do such things all the time. That was well-deserved too." The older sister defended herself. She noticed the distant smile of Catherine's knight who helped brush off the snow from her little sister's coat.

The three walked into town, two of them already freezing from being dunked in snow. They planned on going to an inn where they could warm themselves up, they always had a fireplace lit up during winter. They could also get a couple of drinks, perhaps some mead.

The three women entered the in and found themselves a table, not many people came during the day so it was much safer for all of them. They each ordered some sort of alcoholic drink and enjoyed the warmth they were given from the fireplace. People knew who the empress was and most knew what she looked like because her sister was a resident in their town.

Most people were frightened to do something that the empress did not like, the reality was that she did not care what most people did and she was not judging them as much as they thought she did. She was a fair woman who only reacted to injustice and intentional disrespect.

The women talked among themselves. Adelina and Hyeon got to talk with each other some more. The older sister found Hyeon to be easy to talk to and quite the interesting character, the way she had come from a completely different culture and the region was interesting too, she had not spoken to someone like her before.

Hours later they decided to leave them in, they had joined a drinking game with a group of men who asked them to play with them, but they all decided it was best to stop before they got too drunk. The empress did not want to wobble around looking like a fool. Adelina was the drunkest of them all, she held onto Hyeon's shoulder because she was the drunkest of them. Catherine wanted to hold onto Hyeon too but thought it would be too much for the younger woman.

"Wait, I do not want t-to to go back just yet," Catherine spoke.

"Your sister is far too drunk to be wandering around."

"Then we will take her home and go back."

"You are quite drunk yourself Catherine, I do not want you to hurt yourself." The older woman just laughed, it would be the perfect opportunity to let Hyeon take care of her. "Then you simply must look after me." She batted her eyelashes at her knight. The young woman who seemed to be the babysitter of two drunk women just sighed and agreed. The empress was her boss after all.

The walk back was painfully slow as the knight tried to keep the older sister up, Catherine tried to help, but would nearly fall herself, so she decided to leave the work to Hyeon, she was strong and could handle it. Hyeon got the woman to her bed and let her rest.

"Come my knight." Catherine grabbed Hyeon's arm and walked her back outside where they walked back into the in. Hyeon ordered two glasses of water and gave them to Catherine. "Drink these, you must sober up." The woman groaned and pouted like a child. "No."