Empress of Eternal Winter (GL)

Side Chapter: The Emperor and The Maid.

Side Chapter: The Emperor and The Maid.

Third person's POV

-After cleaning the broken shards at the broken council room-

...

The day of the return, old friends would be wise to catch up.

The former general of the army, who retired and under orders of the empress she was not allowed to leave the little one's side but it does not mean she cannot visit the ones she cared about in her provincial city.

The one who truly inflicted that rule, was the emperor.

Both stood face to face, Victoria had just finished doing her duties and she faced the ruler of the kingdom who was tired and breaking down in his seat in his private office.

"Victoria, have I gone insane? The lives we've lost- the mothers that will mourn their children that fought for my selfish desires... how will they curse my name?" The emperor began to bite his thumb, blood dripping down his skin and lip.

"Alastor-" (Victoria) wanted to comfort her friend, the father of the child she's taking care of. "I know how the war has taken a toll on all of us- just- maybe revenge and expanding the kingdom is not the right answer."

Emperor Alastor sighed, and held his head. The writhing agony he was feeling, the chest burning he couldn't explain what was happening.

It has only been a few hours since he has arrived, but without the usual screams he was hearing- his body has gone paranoid.


"Then what is-?! I have sinned, I tell you! Every royal sins in this family, dies a horrible fate or is making horrible decisions like mine?! What can I do to prevent it?!" He proceeds to pull his hair and ask Victoria many questions hoping she knows what to do.

"You were my adviser please... help me... what can I do to make everything better again?!" (Emperor Alastor) slammed the table, slowly going insane.

"The families of my kingdom are suffering from famine, the crime rate is high, and the nobles have been talking behind my back when I was out there defending our kingdom!" His pleas began sounding like howls of a wolf in pain, the man once known to have the charm to make people follow him in battle because the soldiers wanted to- was long gone.

Everyone wanted to abandon the emperor, because his cause for fighting became mudded. Unable to see the right, when has revenge been always right?

"What can I do- oh... what can I do..."

Bam!


Victoria knew the only solution she could think of.

She saw the princess, the future empress ruling her people fair and well. If anyone could break such a cycle it would be her. The little one she raised in all these years, the trust she gave was almost endless.

The girl knew empathy, decisiveness, and knew how to get along with commoners whom she will be caring for once she is crowned.


"Your daughter." she started, head looking down on her hands suddenly nervous.

"My... daughter?" The emperor remembered the girl that asked if he was his father.

"My daughter." He repeats, now he couldn't forget how she could look so similarly to his late wife, the former empress.

"It's been years since you've left, she's growing into a lovely person." (Victoria) smiles, chuckling about how it feels to see a child grow up day by day.

Being proud of their accomplishments and their effort.

It was weird.

Growing up in an orphanage this kind of thing was normal, she watched other children grow and be their own person.