>>5725425>20Ekaterine’s eyes begin to water again but, rather than give into the despair, she squeezes them shut in a series of forceful blinks until the tears recede. When your human mate looks back to you, tehre is a fire in those eyes, and steel in her spine.
“Alexos WILL be back,” she insists, her tone almost a warning one.
“Yess,” you assent, pretending to believe in this impossible hope. “Perhapsss.”
“This isn’t forever,” she says, wavering momentarily. “This isn’t… A path to power, you know.”
You narrow your eyes a little. It seems that, though she does not yet know the full scope of it, your Human Queen recognizes your ambition in this. Still, you bow your head in deference.
“Of courssse,” you lie.
“But if it is for the good of the people…”
“It ISSS,” you insist, and truthfully you believe this much.
“Then very well,” Eka says with a shuddering breath, drawing her arms around herself. You move in to do likewise, taking her into yoru embrace.
“We’re doing the right thing,” she asks softly, “right?”
You aren’t certain whether she’s asking you, or the Paladin King, but you stroke her hair until she is ready to leave.
In asserting to Ekaterine that she ought to rule this place—‘temporarily’, of course—you have changed your mission parameters. What was once a visit of obligation, to appease your troubled spouse, is now a mission of subversion and dominance. As you and Ekaterine lay in your bed—and it IS nice to share intimate quarters this time, as opposed to having to sneak around in dreams and darkness—you consider the magnitude of what you are undertaking, and the complications you now face. It is rather a lot to consider, but you have never shied from a challenge.
A few particular questions arise, demanding urgent answers:
What has become of Irinnile, the Succubus?
What will you do about Rufos, who will surely move against you once he realizes Sir Ewald have failed to capture or kill you?
What will you do with the rest of the Holy Order of Hawksong?
How will you convince the ‘council’ of noblemen to choose Ekaterine as heir?
And what has become of the agents of the Master Race in this place, with the collapse of the northern forward base?
Which problem will you tackle first?
>The Search for the Sucucbus>The Grey Oath of the Paladins>The Conversion of the Council>Rufos’ Rebellion>Touch Base with the Master Race>Write-in[You can also assign the Archer or Thief to a task to handle multiple at once, or Ekaterine herself, though of course some are better suited some than others, and none of them have your heroic statline and resultant dicepool.]
