Saiunkoku: The Age of Silver: The Color of the Phoenix's Tail - Part Five

[branchandroot]

Fic post from my archive.

The Color of the Phoenix's Tail: Part Five

Seien is learning how to deal with the ministers. Drama, I-3

Seien sighed; some days he felt more like a nursemaid than any kind of ruler, even one in training. Keeping the ministers away from each other's throats sometimes reminded him quite a lot of trying to keep a five-year-old Shuurei from dunking herself in the fish pond.

Comments

[penguin-sensei.livejournal.com]

Ah, I love how Shuurei's spirit is, in the end, what saves poor Seien when he tries to deal with his responsibilities :D Even in this AU, Shuurei and Ryuuki are what keep Seien sane. Well, in the "canon" universe, Ensei helps with that, too, but Seiran will never, ever want to admit this ^_^

[branchandroot]

Oh yeah; Seiran is so self-reliant and untrusting, except with a very, very few. Poor guy. That actually seems to be coming up as a plot-point later on in this 'verse. To do the work of Emperor, he has to expand it beyond Shuurei and Ryuuki and Shouka. *evil grin* And Ensei, eventually.

Glad you liked it!

[penguin-sensei.livejournal.com]

*nods*

That's the way I see it as well. Well, of course, my own theory also involves aliens, but I'm not sure you want to hear about it XD

Yep, I really liked it. Sorry I wasn't able to review these parts earlier!