Chapter 78: Epilogue

Narrator

That day was the beginning of many spent much the same. It wasn’t long before the whispers around the palace were of the great love the Emperor and his Empress bore each other.

That love seemed to spread a warmth over the palace and beyond and the people were enamored of the happy couple who were unlike any ruling monarchs before them.

The Empress was lauded far and wide for her generosity of spirit, when it wasn’t her beauty being talked about that is.

And the Emperor, who’d long held his own ideals about rule, had successfully implemented change that benefited not just the ruling class, but the commoners as well.

Because of her time spent at the village of the damned, Empress Mia had firsthand knowledge of what was needed to make the place more suited to human life. And it was her work there that really propelled her into the hearts of the people.