"I'm sorry to trouble you my lord but I must discuss the events on the rim." Emperor Justin was only twenty three, it wasn't a natural ascension for the emperor, his father had been assassinated by some kind of poison three years prior leaving Justin in charge of the Ronerawth Empire. He hated the power, hated how everyone was seemingly afraid of him, and hated how the throne felt as much as a prison as it did anything else.
"Oh yes that incident with assassins and I believe some of our military personnel?" Someone had briefed Justin on it, but it didn't seem all that interesting, just more bullshit in the day.
"Yes my lord, the young Lieutenant..."
"Lorentino right? Son of a suspected necromancer, a highly powered shifter correct?" The aid was kind of astonished Justin had remembered, Justin himself only remembered because the idea of being able to just imagine being somewhere else and then being there was intoxicating.
"Yes my lord, what do you want us to do with him?"
"Do with him? Is he not a Lieutenant in our military? Does he not have some kind of task he could be doing?" Justin was confused by the aid, his implication was the man was a prisoner of some sort, but he hadn't seen any conduct detrimental from the man. His actions had worked out swimmingly for the empire.
"Emperor he's a powerful magic user that could do a lot of harm to our citizenry." Justin sighed.
"So you want me to put a man to death for doing his job because you people are afraid of what he might do with his power?"
"You're father understood his dangerous nature sir, that's why he was on the rim, but now that he's caused an incident out there."
"An incident that benefited us, and he helped retrieve a lost sergeant as I recall, my father was many things but a thinker was not among them, I understand your concerns, but I do not share them, in fact have this Lorentino brought to me, I'd like to size him up in person, and do not even open your stupid mouth with a statement about the danger of it."
"Yes my lord."
"Dismissed, contact me when the young Lieutenant is here." The aid left with a look of horror on his face and Emperor Justin was pleased. He didn't know what he'd ask of Lorentino, or even why he wanted to see him, but the look of horror on his aid's face was enough for the Emperor. Maybe he'd ask Lorentino to shift him somewhere else, anywhere else. The emperor sighed and turned back to the holo feeds he was perusing before the aid showed up, slightly disgusted how boring that day would be.
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