Ashikaga Masaru
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Roleplay posts: 4 
Age: 44
Registered: Jan 4, 2016 15:16:08 GMT -8
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Post by Ashikaga Masaru on Jan 12, 2016 16:49:43 GMT -8
The Lord of the Ashikaga bowed his head and looked to the servant with a silent nod. "Rest, Suzume-heika," Masaru urged the Empress quietly. The servant would not be merely rebuffed by Empress and per the indication of the daimyo, she would administer a drought of opium to her to ease the pain. The man understood the breadth of her injuries would weave her in and out of consciousness and his apothecary's medicines would temper the pain throughout so rest came quickly and readily to her cause. There was no fighting it either. Her fleeting recollection of that moment would simply be him speaking to another.
"Prepare a list of the honored dead for the Empress for when she wakes."
Then there was nothing.
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Registered: Nov 21, 2024 6:04:45 GMT -8
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2016 8:24:12 GMT -8
(A week and a half later...)
Suzume could no longer stay still. Her leg throbbed with dull pain, and when she thought of opium, her mouth went dry and her stomach clenched, her body anticipating its sweet bliss. That was when she knew she could no longer depend on opium for her pain management. Overall, the Empress' color had mostly returned. She appeared as beautiful and golden as she always was, yet seated whenever she took an audience.
Her men had been burried with honor, and she insisted that she be at the ceremony, attended by all noble households and villages who saw a pale Empress with a fierce set to her jaw and a refusal to sit, even with a broken leg, during the funeral ritual. It had taxed her greatly, but the effect had caused a flux of whispers in favor of the Empress through the people.
Some argued, however, that that had been her intention. She had used the funeral of her men to further her political savvy and report with her people. If so, it was well done.
She had become even more distant and untouchable than when she had arrived, perhaps out of pride and embarrassment of her perceived weakness. She had continued her correspondence with Miyuri, Sano, and her new Captain of the Glorious Hundred while she had been laid out, and was now eager and restless to visit the other provinces and lands of Katashima.
Some argued that she should return to the Sacred City, where she would be safe, but that was not an option for Suzume. Her medics told her that putting strain on her wounded leg with travel would give her a permanent limp; she replied that she would finish her journey, whether limping or crawling. That remark had also circulated in gossip. Perhaps it was true, perhaps it wasn't, but the rumor only fortified the gossip of the Golden Empress' iron will.
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Lord Genji
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Roleplay posts: 123
Age: 43
Registered: May 14, 2015 12:40:27 GMT -8
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Post by Lord Genji on Feb 5, 2016 9:15:44 GMT -8
The lord of the Hizashi domain made frequent trips from his mansion to the Ashikaga castle, where the Empress was kept for triage. Security was extremely tight and Genji's visits were swift and often incognito, in order to reduce exposure during a moment a good adversary could take advantage of. While rumors were abound in full force of the Empress' condition, Genji pressed the case that she was healthy and fit to rule, and that the kami would not have let her die.
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