*Queen Amara* The journey back to the Capital was tiresome and when I finally arrived home I was bombarded. Questions from my children were thrown at me while I tried to organize the mass of documents that had piled up in my absence. Plans were made and a long evening was spent calming my curious children who were wondering how their cousins were doing. And the next day was filled with more of the same, with my entire day spent finishing things I had left behind and the evening spent entertaining the endlessly energetic Princes and Princess’. I had managed to make a significant dent in the mass of documents on my desk and had called on Ivy to bring in sweets for a tea break with my children who had just finished their tutoring lessons. Melina had chased after Ivy and Teris turned towards

