Pilgrimage

[rix_scaedu]

This was originally posted at http://unorthodoxcreativity.com/15minfic.php in response to a visual prompt.

It was the least she could do, they said, to make this pilgrimage to pray for the new regime. So she had. Every step barefoot and unveiled. From the capital where the new Emperor sat, surrounded by his advisers and none of them yet come to

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[aldersprig]

Intrigued. Is there more in this setting?

[rix_scaedu]

This setting didn't exist before this evening :)

But there might have to be more. I have a feeling that if the new Emperor isn't married she might wind up being Empress. After all, what's he going to do with her? Lock her up for life? Execute her after she's been seen alive in public? Have her marry someone else and produce children with a theoretical claim to the throne to compete with his children?

[aldersprig]

I love it when prompts make settings, don't you?

I'm curious to read more. :-D

[rix_scaedu]

If I write more I'll actually have to come up with people names!