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.

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[branchandroot]

Thank you!

*grins* Seien will get around to the exam thing. Comparatively quickly, too.

Since this is three years before canon-start, Reishin and Kijin are heads of their respective departments. We'll meet Reishin soon.

Seien will take the throne when his father dies, which happens one year before canon start; so about two years from this point.