>>5336614Here's one of the side-stories that I wrote. I hope it's not intrusive enough to derail your current plan.
SIDE STORY - THREE KINGDOMS CRUCIBLE
--FORBIDDEN CITY: CHINA--
"-And that concludes my report, your highness."
"Thank you. You are dismissed. Next."
"Empress Shun, I bring news from Xie'He. The Mongol Worm riders have arrived with their latest shipment of relics from the Europeans."
A scroll of bamboo and human skin is rolled out for the ruler to see. A pair of young violet eyes narrowed as she read the script written in blood. Neon veins pulsing rhythmically throughout 6 feet of hair in deep thought before the sovereign spoke with the voice of a 12-year old.
"...Buy their stock, send the shipments to arm the Bei Army. Pay the traders three Cocoons and twenty sacks of spices as payment. If they refuse, make it work. But pay them no more than four cocoons."
The spinster bowed deeply, the back of her neck adorned with a Jade wasp as woman the backed away and another court spinster took her place in line.
"Empress Shun. News from the Garrison at Jinan, a demon of the Colossal class has been sighted arising in the Calcite Karsts near the Yellow river."
Shun closed her eyes and concentrated. Generator boosted Neuromancy pulsed from the child empress's skull and into the ground, traveling at light-speed to issue orders afar before speaking to the court spinster.
"I have ordered a group of 12 daughters to hunt it down." Shun replied with a wave of her hand. "You are dismissed. Next."
"Your highness, Zhuo's Forces have begun their assault on the Southwestern Garrison in Chongqing near the Yangzhe."
"Tell the Garrison to leave a third of their constructs to detonate the Virus bomb and another third to blunt the enemy and buy time. Evacuate everyone else and blow up the bone bridge." The empress gave a tired sigh, as she began nursing a growing headache with one hand. "Is there anything else?"
Another court spinster stepped up and bowed deeply.
"Your highness, the last of Cao Ci's faction has been defeated."
"And the woman herself?"
"Captured, your highness."
"Bring her here."
With a clap of the spinster's hands and an order that rang out throughout the hall, a retinue of guards marched in with a woman in tow, stripped bare of clothing and shackled in wrought iron, the restraining relics preventing the prisoner's mutations from fully manifesting.
There was a brief moment of silence as Cao Ci was unceremoniously shoved forward to be presented before Empress Shun.
cont.
