Yume stared at the wall with the same quite wonder a girl might use staring at the stars.  "The Empire is like a great, many spoked wheel.  My mother talked to me a lot about it.  Every single shred of power in the Empire derives from the Empress.  Without her, the center cannot hold.  Without her, there is no center, the spokes just fly apart.  And, in the year that this happens, here we are, three Anathema exalted just in time to slip through the cracks and begin to comprhened our power and our purpose.  How many more of us are out there, with the power to shape the world towards our vision?  How many of us will abuse that power?<br/><br/>"I never believed that 'may you live in intresting times' was a curse.  I prefer to look on intresting times as an opertunity."