Beneath the Dragoneye Moons: Return to Remus by Selkie Myth

Author:Selkie Myth [Myth, Selkie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Royal Road
Published: 2022-05-05T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 24

The Dawn of Change

Emperor Augustus and I shook hands, cementing the deal.

"Do you have time for hammering out some details?" He asked as an advisor stifled a yawn. They had to work extremely hard with the whole ‘single-handedly running an empire’ thing, and I’d just demolished their entire night’s sleep.

And I’d bet so much money that Augustus would grab breakfast, freshen up for a few minutes, then get right back to the empire-running business.

"Only a few minutes, then I need to report to Ranger HQ. Daily stand-up to make sure there’s nothing we need to be dispatched on." I gave my best ‘winningly apologetic’ tone.

"Of course, of course." Augustus said. "The Sentinels and Rangers do such fine work, I’d never want to interfere or get in their way."

Yet he was at the top of Night’s guesses as to why Julius had vanished, given that the balance of power of Ranger Command had tilted towards the Senate, which Augustus somewhat controlled.

I mentally shook my head.

Focus. Entirely irrelevant to the topic at hand. I was tired, and [Sunrise] was good, but didn’t substitute sleep, especially not after the emotionally taxing day and mentally taxing night.

"When is a good time for you to begin the process? Does it take particularly long?" Augustus asked.

"I could probably do the first person later today." I mused. "The skill does have a cooldown, and I’m not quite sure how long it is."

I thought about it for a moment.

"I hope you understand when I ask to turn you back after the policy changes are made." I hedged a bit. He waved my concern off.

"Naturally. I hope you understand that I’d like to see a demonstration before making the large changes?"

That was fair. I’d made a lot of claims, but I hadn’t backed any of them up. Nobody had seen the gnoll, and a lot of faith had been placed in my personal honesty and integrity.

"Sure." It was a small thing after all. My worst-case scenario was turning back some dude, then nothing happened. I’d get mightily annoyed at Emperor Augustus - to say the least - but it wasn’t the end of the world.

I’d have time to plot my revenge.

"One last note, and I’ll leave this problem for your advisors." I said, placing a bit more trust in them than I probably should. "I believe it’d be beneficial to trace the citizenship lines of a number of women, and grant them citizenship. Sort of a retroactive thing." I said. "It’s heritable from father to son, it’ll also be heritable from father to daughter, then from mother to son and daughter. Why not just… poke at it and make everyone who would’ve been a citizen, an actual citizen?"

"We’ll discuss it." Leandros, the lawyer, said after a moment.

That was likely to be a no. I could argue this another day, before a bunch of Sentinels got dispatched to my villa.

"Right. I’ll swing by this evening then?" I asked Augustus.

"Agreed. Does your skill require anything to activate or operate? A

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