Change – Chapter 7

Time flew by. The spring and summer came and went, and after the fall, they soldiered through another cold winter. The two had been in the capital, working in the imperial courts, for over a year. They had been living in this foreign world for over five years now. They had spent a year in the experimental lab sort of place, three years in the Essen estate, and one year in the capital. They were welcoming their fifth spring.

Many things had changed. The flow of politics and worldly trends dramatically changed, and much like their changing surroundings, the two had changed as well. The Damun Empire’s reforms had taken firm hold and were operating in full swing. The reforms that started within the imperial courts rushed out into all corners of the empire like a bucket of water that had sprung a leak. The changes soon ushered in a feeling of imminent, dramatic change from the past.

Additionally, wars started breaking out throughout the continent. Fiefdoms fought with other fiefdoms, republics and kingdoms fought with fiefdoms and each other. Soon, alliances and agreements started forming between organizations and entities, and these relationships started triggering additional areas to...