Napoleon's Fall and Twilight (1)

[The Imperial Family, silent for some time, has finally begun to stretch its wings!]

It only took that one line to shake the Imperial capital.

How frantically had those reporters, emboldened beyond all reason, pounded on the doors of the Imperial Palace and the legislature, ignoring even who their sponsors were, trying to dig up some story connected to the First Prince?

Of course, if they had run a breaking-news story based on that one line alone, the fellow would probably be pounding his head before the owner of whatever newspaper he worked for and repenting by now.

[The Imperial Family, silent for some time, has finally begun to stretch its wings!]

[Her Highness Ophelia, the First Princess, appeared at an official event and held a ball!]

A single flower of the Empire. Wasn’t she the very First Princess who, despite being showered with countless offers of political marriage, had coldly rebuffed them all with the outrageously arrogant declaration, “There is no man who can rule me”?

But if she had been satisfied with that alone and written the article, one could naturally say she lacked the makings of a first-rate journalist.

A fairly thorough gag order had been put in place, but.

In the end, two more lines were added to those two, putting the finishing touch on the masterpiece...