Imperator: Resurrection of an Empire

Queen Hayna in her unstable state had come to a conclusion over a year ago, and to this day she still continued her actions.

Her delusions had been reinforced as her life got better after the formal declaration of surrender was given following Julius's conquest of Southern Lunan, this was in part to the fact that the squalor she lived in had been removed.

Her quality of life returned to normal, and luxuries brought back to her.

But rather than thinking that the conquering hero was taking pity on her, Hayna had come to the conclusion that her reinforcements had arrived and managed to push the blaggard back.

Seeing that her efforts as a queen were effective, she carried on the tradition of rewarding her people.

And what better reward could she offer than for the common man to get the chance to lay with their queen.

To her this was two-fold, she would raise her forces morale and deny Julius the prize he so desperately sought after.

Julius of course was well aware of this having been fed reports on the ongoings of the former queen, having found it odd that the Queen had turned to sudo-prostitution as her last act of defiant resistance against his coming rule.

But since she was doing so of her own free-will Julius allowed it, the alternative of course would be to endure a minor rebellion raised by her only to result in the disturbed girls death in the end.

But now the Queen daliance had been spotted by another Royal.

The Queens, and Princesses had been living in this palace for months now, but it was only now that Queen Hayna's activities were witnessed.

That other queens probably had an inking of what was going on, but performed like royals and decided to not air anothers dirty laundry unless it benefitted them.

But now a princess had witnessed the goings on.

She was of age but due to the increasing volitility of the world, her engagement had ended with the death of her fiance in the field of battle against the Visigoth Empire.

But now she found herself as a captive of another Empire, the Romanus Empire.

And before this young ladies eyes she bore witness to a refine and noble Queen of a former greater kingdom performing a depraved and indecent act of sexual relations towards a man the princess recognized... the man was a guard assigned to act like a prison guard keeping the ladies within the confines of the palace.

But as she watched the young princess came to realize that the Queen was not being forced into this state.

The queen was driving the ongoing union.

But even when the guard grunted a final time before getting dressed and departing the Queen only did a quick reset before a knock came from another door in the room and a new man entered, picking up where the first man left off.

The young lady was beyond shocked.

She had briefly been read into the dealings between men and women by her royal trainer who prepared her to serve her future husband, but now...

Now she was witnessing a scene she'd only ever heard about when sneaking around the castle as a child and overhearing the laundry maids discussing the commoner men of the city when they go to brothels.

As much as the princess wanted to run away lest she be discovered she found she couldnt tear her vision from the scene going on before her.

And as she continued to watch time got away from her.

She watched man after man being used by the queen, before being sent off on their way only for another to enter the room.

Every hour or so the queen would take a brief break to cleanse herself, pull out fresh linens and prepare for when her next suitor would arrive.

It wasnt until the morning light started to fill the hall that the young lady realized that she had been peeping on these depraved acts for the entire night and to her dismay she forced herself to leave the wing behind and flee to her room.

Memories of everything she'd witnessed this night replaying over and over again in her mind.

When she reached her room, even though exhaustion lingered her young mind couldnt settle down, and after being tortured by her memories.

Rather than getting into bed and finally sleeping she instead absconded from her room once more, this time headed for her sisters rooms.

She was more than certain of what she had seen now that she'd had some time to think about it and review, but this just sent her young mind into overdrive and she sought validation from her peers.

But the only people she could talk to were her family.

Definetly not her mother!

Never to do that would be like volunteering to be locked in seclusion with all the little luxuries she had left being confiscated from her.

So that left her with the Palace staff... who were engaged in the acts themselves so that was out due to the level of embarrassment she would experience attempting to question someone else about their sex life.

That left only her sisters and the other princesses that lived here with her.

Even though it was still early morning, she managed to find a group already having risen and taking morning tea in one of the many sitting rooms of the palace.

Without even asking she quickly strode into the room and took up a vacant seat.

The other ladies having realized that the new entrant to their little even was troubled.

Mostly because while their wardrobes had been reduced to a minimum they all could still tell that the clothes their companion wore were the same ones theyd seen her wearing at dinner the night before.

Though they chose to refrain from raising questions about her state of dress and instead began to raise questions as to what had clearly unsettled her so...

But the first words they heard from her mouth caused the young ladies mouths to drop agape.

"Prostitutes."