Book 4: Chapter 9
Princess Lunalah’s mind drifted as Ling Wei delivered her briefing on the latest global economic report. They were within her private office as usual, but Lunalah wished she could be anywhere else. The tedium of rule had become burdensome of late and her only reprieve was found within the refuge of her own thoughts and imagination.
Happier days were yet to come.
Of that she was assured.
Days when she would find herself finally betrothed after these long decades of isolation and solitude.
Those days will come, she told herself like a mantra.
But for now, she had to endure Ling Wei’s report.
Lunalah sighed as she droned on about returns and expenditures.
The economy was fairing marginally well despite the lack of treasury funds. The finance minister attributed the uptick due to the long term, residual effects of the tournament. Lunalah wasn’t completely certain if that were true, but she didn’t want to dwell on the topic to spare herself the grief of having to relive the debacle.
It was the main reason why the treasury funds were so low in the first place.