TBATE - What if Tessia was the legacy ? - The legacy of it all

A full cycle in the roundabout

{Tessia Eralith}

Looking up to the ceiling I stared unblinkingly as I slowly tapped my index finger on the desk at the same rhythm as the ticking of the clock in the corner of my office.

Focusing on it from the corner of my vision, I could only let out an overly exaggerated sigh as I realised that it was still 10 in the morning.

Realising all the tension in my neck, Iet my head fall on my desk before staring at the flat, polished wooden surface for another minute.

-I'm bored." I complained to myself as I glanced up at the spot where all my paperwork should have been.
I never thought the day would come, but I finally ran out of things to do.

Ever since I took up this role as Unity there had always been something to do, recruits to train, missions to plan, rooms to expand, children to entertain, but now, there was nothing left.

All those tasks had been dispersed around the different branches of my organization with the People Management branch, the administrative branch, the public action branch, the Security branch; the Legislative, Medical, Educative, Executive, Economic, even a damn Agricultural branch!

I didn't even know we had one until the last meeting.

Every possible angle is covered by people, who are now far more experienced, knowledgeable and renowned than me in that specific field.

No matter what task I find, it has either already been done, turns out to be a terrible idea, or, in the few cases where it hasn't, can be performed much more efficiently by the teams already in place.

I can't even go out hunting some slave traders of bandits to release my frustration because we already killed them all!

The roads and borders have become so safe and well-guarded, the people so much more informed and able to defend themselves that we ran the economics of the slave trading traffic into the f*cking ground
We are at the point where it simply isn't worth the effort of bypassing all of the defences and taking the risk of capturing people to work for you. You'd get paid far better and have a far easier time working at any random company.

I spent more of my time worrying about inflation and literacy rate than about saving people or ending slavery.

Unity isn't just an organisation; it has grown exponentially in every direction at once to become some sort of supra-national entity that slowly takes over the duties of the other countries.

It first started when I joked about building roads ourselves after the logistics branch complained that the existing infrastructure wasn't good enough, but those insane people took it as some sort of "high command" from me and created a whole new branch dedicated just to maintaining and expanding the road network. Fast Forward a year later and we have put all of Sapin's road-network enterprises out of business on their own land without me doing anything.

and it's the same with everything else!

A random comment about having to teach how to write to new Dwarf recruits, and we end up subsidising 37% of all schools in Darv, without taking in account all the once we are running ourselves.

Even the conflict with Blaine just froze in place as neither of us could directly attack the other without destroying our own reputations and internal stability as we both are very popular figures with the population.

Not just that, but it is more than clear that neither of us has the power to destroy the other via conventional means just by judging by the sheer size of both of our organisations and the unwillingness of our soldiers to fight each other.