honor among thieves

Althea looked at herself in the mirror she had been put into elaborate robes by the help of her servants. She had always enjoyed wearing the more simple robes but it had been insisted that tonight because of the festivities she should wear her special yukata. 

Parting their way through the line of servants and maids, the empress and her guardian traversed to the threshold of the castle grounds. On foot, the festival was only a few minutes away-- yet time passed slowly, nervously ticking away like the sweat that melted the skin of his palms. Keiss held steady in his role, however, and kept the empress close in the crook of his elbow. Lights from lanterns burned bright and hung in intersecting rows above the stalls stocked full of food and fanfare. As they reached their destination, the young man surveyed the crowd for any unlikely trouble-- the likes of which would be a disturbance he could not afford. While his drive was still career-oriented, the safety of Althea was his only focus that night.

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