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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[grey-damaskena.livejournal.com]

I'm slow in reviewing, for which I apologize profusely. Granted that the reason for this has been the large amount of writing going on, but even so . . .

Ah, Seien is practicing politics. I take it that the Emperor is still absent. And Shou's making him work for every inch of it, too, how very Shou.

Don't worry, Seien, hopefully the competent officials will start moving to the fore soon. Think of how much smoother everything will go once you have your "cabinet" selected and trained!

In the meantime, he's going to get a lot of practice in keeping his poker face, and his "yes, good, here, take the carrot, take the carrot, there's a good offical"-face, on. ;-)

. . . did that make sense? Probably not, but it did in my head . . .

[branchandroot]

*laughing* That is exactly the expression I see in my head, yes!

And cabinet members start to appear next! Soon after which Seien has to deal with the Emperor's death, poor guy. And he thought he was already under pressure...

*wry* Yeah, I expect I'll not be posting until Wednesday this week, having too many appointments to keep. Writing is a /much/ better reason.

Glad you liked it!