"Lunar Thaumaturge Aimery Park, Your Majesty."
Kai and Torin stood as the thaumaturge glided past nails
into Kai's office.
Although Aimery bowed respectfully to Kai as he came to
stand on the opposite side of desk, so low that the long
sleeves of his maroon jacket nearly brushed the carpet
there was something supremely disrespectful in his air
that always set Kai on edge.
He had never quite been able to pinpoint what it was
about this man—maybe it was the way he always wore
a faint smile at the corners of his lips, or perhaps how
that smile only reached his eyes when he was using his
gift to manipulate someone.
"Thank you for joining us," said Kai, gesturing to the chair
across from him.
"Please make yourself comfortable."
"My pleasure," said Aimery, settling gracefully into the
offered chair.
"Anything for Luna's future king."
The designation made it squirm.
It was quickly that he would be taking on a new title as
much as Levana was, but the difference was that Luna
had very strict laws governing who could be put into
positions of power, and Earthens certainly did not
make the cut.
He would be crowned King Consort, meaning he
would be a pretty figurehead with virtually non
power whatsoever.
Unfortunately, the Commonwealth did not have the same
fail-safes put in place.
Kai's great-great-great-grandfather, the country's emperor,
must have trusted his descendants to make sound decisions
on their spouses,
"I wanted to discuss with you a discovery recently made by
the Earthen Union," Kai said, nodding at Torin.
His adviser stepped closer to the desk and set a portscreen in
its center.
With a click, the holograph of Earth with 327 Lunar spaceships
surrounding it flickered to life above the desk.
Kai watched the thaumaturge closely but the man
did not show an iota of a reaction to the holograph,
even with hundreds of yellow dots reflected like
fireflies in his dark eyes.
"This is real-time imagery of Earth and its surrounding
space," said Kai.
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Cress
Teen FictionTheir best hope lies with Cress, a girl trapped on a satellite since childhood who's only ever had her netscreens as company. All that screen time has made Cress an excellent hacker. Unfortunately, she's being force to work for Queen Levana, and she...
