Imperator: Resurrection of an Empire

"Prostitutes."

This was the first word spoken so softly that it was like a whisper.

The ladies thought they'd heard wrong and leaned forward with the intent to hear what was spoken louder.

But having seen their reaction, the word was repeated but loud enough for all in the room to hear it.

"Prostitutes."

three of the assembled princesses mouths stood agape having heard confirmation of what they'd heard.

And the shock of having heard it coming from the mouth of a princess like themselves, while one among them was shocked more to have heard such a vulgar word coming from her little sisters mouth.

"Adelia, explain yourself! If you've come just to sully our simply guilty pleasure of taking tea, i swear i'll put you over my knee right here!"

These young ladies were well aware of the words in use by the commoners but they were also aware the words were like curse words, in noble circles the proper term would be consort, or mistress.

But as the three began interrogating the young lady they became shocked that the conclusion they'd jumped to was wholely incorrect.

They assumed the young lady had broken down and was willing to submit herself to Julius as a consort or mistress, giving up her royal heritage and noble pride for a chance at greater freedom.

While the others thought she was opening herself up to becoming a lover of one of Julius's generals or vassals to leave this place and regain even an iota of the power they once held as royal ladies of the court.

Only for the young lady herself to correct all of them.

Explaining her desire to become like what the commoners endured.

She wanted to sell her body not to a noble or general but to the soldiers and guardsmen of the palace.

This revelation stunned the assembled royal personages, with her sister being the first whose brain rebooted and she lashed out against the very idea.

"YOU WHAT!!! Have you no pride as a noble! to give yourself, your chastity! to a commoner, have you fallen so far as to think such a thing is acceptable?"

The girl recoiled from the verbal tongue lashing but the next info dump once more shocked the ladies.

As she revealed the biggest secret kept within the walls of this palace.

At first the ladies refused to beleive the story they were hearing, but as the young girl continued her tale of debauchery.

The young lasses couldnt help but become enthralled the more they heard.

Their training as noble ladies screamed within their minds to stop, but they had been devoid of any entertainment in months now.

This ongoing story of debauchery especially by one of the most regal and poised of their ranks was the biggest scandal these young misses had ever heard.

And as much as they would deny the accusation, they had become enthralled and attracted to the discovered secret.

But ultimately nothing came about as a result... yet.

Each ending the tea party before returning on their own into their private rooms for a moment of seclusion to 'digest' the news they had just received.

~

In the end the greatest kept secret was disseminated amonst all the occupents within the next couple of days and the princesses tea parties and strolls began to take a different shape.

Even their nightly rests had become moments for each to plot a escape from their room to the wing of depraved activity.

Unbenownst to them each princesses excursion to the Lunan wing of the palace was known to the guards, they might be getting benefits but they still took their jobs seriously otherwise.

They didnt get in the ladies ways, Julius their emperor was very clear on the matter.

If the ladies voluntarily chose to engage with them as Hayna had their nubile flesh was fair game but until such a time they remained as untouchable to them as the stars.

~

While as this was going on the Ramie, and Parthian Queens were under going their own discussion of similar situations within their own lives.

The queen were unlike their daughters.

They had known of the goings on within the palace from day 1.

Having almost expected to have been ravaged as the spoils of war by the soldiers long ago only to be surprised when they were left alone and with few rules to follow within their confines.

But knowing that Hayna broken as she was, was on almost a daily occurance getting to scratch the itch that to them had only been itched by their husbands and even then only rarely.

But their pride was holding them back.

At first they teased the idea of inviting a commoner to bed them but being the one in control, or having setup a seperator to make it so neither they or the commoner would know who was on the other side.

But the more they came up with ideas the more the itch began to burn them from within.

Until finally their thoughts had become dangerously similar to Hayna's.

"We should just do it! Deny the tyrannt his prize, our only worth is as noble ladies but if we act in rebellion as Hayna has and make our worth basically worthless, leaving him no option other than to leave us here to our own."

"Mhmm, like an act of rebellion! We have no power to raise armies or the ability to send spies into his court to assassinate, but we can sway the loyalty of his army. Get them behind us ( ;) ) and possibly force the Emperors hand to assign us our lands back as regeants or regional nobility if not queens."

"Oh yes yes! But we must make sure the children never find out, we do this for them afterall. We sacrifice ourselves to shame and torment such that they have a future brighter than things are now."

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And so it was within 6 months of their lands having been conquered and their lives transfered here that a change happened within Intin as the palatial brothel as the commoners came to know it where anyman willing to pay the price could get the chance to bed their Queen, revised their label and the Palace came to be known as the Golden Rose.

The highest class brothel on the entire continent where you could bed a princess or queen with many options available to you.

Meanwhile the royal lines were allowed to continue as each of the ladies was young and fertile, expanding their family trees while unknowingly expanding Julius's future army and spies as the children were taken to be raised in agreement by their mothers since children should not be around the goings on of the rescidence.

And the 'resistance' against Julius continued to grow, as each nation that fell to his power only helped to bolster their ranks.