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Achkaerin:
The Count In Pyrena

Emerson Ravenswood, Count of Saika and Viceregent of Rokkenjima. Appointed to shake up the Rokkenjima political establishment (not an easy task when the woman who appointed him didn't listen), he's street smart, a long game player and a man very much on a mission. These are the snippets of probably the most unconventional Viceregent Rokkenjima will ever know.
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Changes
Covering Bases
Fury

Achkaerin:
Changes

Emerson Ravenswood stood looking out of his office, or as he liked to think of it study, window he had a lot on his mind - probably not a surprising nugget of information considering that he was the Viceregent of Rokkenjima. On his desk was a copy of the Kirby report, a second copy of the report was in the hands of his adopted daughter Amy, the pair had spent the better part of three hours reading the minutia of the report the stuff that wasn't in the summary that Kirby had delivered but was nonetheless available also present was Kayleigh Pryde, previously the temporary and now courtesy of the Kirby report the permanent head of security at Pyrena.

"This is pretty damning" Amy said before listing the implications "End of Beatrice, end of the Anausa probably the end of Abe as well."
"We knew all that was likely." Emerson said "It's not the report that is concerning."
"It's the fallout from it." Amy said "You knew it was going to be a rebuild job when you accepted being Viceregent."
"Yeah little did I know it was going to be a double rebuild." Emerson said "How about you Kayleigh are you up for this?"
"I am now." Kayleigh said "I've spent the last few days scrambling to get personnel."
"But you've got them?" Emerson asked
"Yes." Kayleigh said "I'm briefing them in about five minutes."
"You'd better go then." Emerson said, Kayleigh smiled and left the room.

"What about Groves?" Amy asked once they were alone
"Don't worry about Groves I'll deal with him." Emerson said
"How are you going to do that?" Amy asked
"I have my ways." Emerson said

Elsewhere in Pyrena Kayleigh was walking out into the gardens, there were four people two women, one girl based on age and one man waiting for her. The man was Jason Tate, the two women were firstly Tori Baker who was sat on the grass and secondly Megan Ramsey who stood leaning against a wall. Last of them was Gemma Sanders.
"You all made good time." Kayleigh said
"Well you know how it is Kay." Jason said
"Ok then I'll make this as quick as I can." Kayleigh said she handed each of them a folder "As per the Kirby report the security arrangements around here are staying with us, which means that we've got an expanded brief, the folders contain your assignments. I'm the primary on Empress Evanthe, Jason you've got Emerson Ravenswood."
"Understood." Jason said
"Megan you've got Princess Euphemia." Kayleigh said
"Ok." Megan said
"Tori you've got Josiah." Kayleigh said
"That's typecasting." Tori said
"I know." Kayleigh said "Which means Gemma..."
"I get Crown Princess Adrianna." Gemma said

"Correct." Kayleigh said "Now listen you all know the drill, keep them safe. Get yourselves familiar with your protectee, get yourselves familiar with Pyrena and go from there. And no letting the kids near the weapons."
"Code words for the protectee's?" Jason asked
"Come up with one and circulate it." Kayleigh said

Achkaerin:
Covering Bases

Gemma Sanders had never been to Tytor before, which was most likely a shame considering the landscape of the country, that would all be changing rather soon though, why? She was the assigned bodyguard to Crown Princess Adriana of Rokkenjima, probably the most high profile job she'd ever had in her time as a Justicar, not to mention probably also the most challenging as it included everything from chaperoning the Crown Princess around to clearing her schedule to essentially being the big sister in all but name. It also meant that when Adriana went to attend school in Tytor Gemma wouldn't be far away. The school in question was Anson Preparatory Academy, otherwise known as Anson Prep. It was going off the prospectus a fine school and from the looking around she was doing at that very moment she was even more impressed. Plus from all the communication she'd had with the school, once she'd known where Adriana was going, she knew that they were more than happy to accommodate the security side of things. Gemma closed her eyes as she stood in the open space outside one of the school buildings and mentally ran through the internal layout of the school, memorising every exit, every path to each door. She smiled as the gentle breeze went through her short hair and tickled her. It was at this point that her phone rang.

"Hello?" Gemma asked answering it.
"How's the school?" it was the voice of the Viceregent of Rokkenjima Emerson Ravenswood
"Certainly lives up to expectations." Gemma said
"Place to live?" Emerson said
"Sorted." Gemma said, there was an Achkaerinese Intelligence safe house about fifteen minutes away on foot.
"And you've got the list of things Adriana's going to need?" Emerson said
"Yes." Gemma said.
"Just remember your job is to protect and look after her but remember to take care of yourself as well." Emerson said
"I'm planning on it." Gemma said

Achkaerin:
Fury

Kayleigh Pryde was normally a reasonably calm individual, in her line of work it was a near basic requirement but today she was to put it mildly pissed off she virtually forced the door to the Vicregent's office open surprising the occupant Emerson Ravenswood, "What kind of..." Kayleigh said taking a deep breath as her native Seaforthian accent went into full flow "Idiocy is this? Adriana decides to take a spin on the Austrana, the entire world can see the ship leave port in Tytor which is a pretty solid bet she's onboard and the best we can manage is a no comment? The media's hit the bullseye and the person looking after the press doesn't comment? Why do we even keep these yachts around? They're not exactly safe in relative terms to an aircraft and are sitting targets for anyone to take a shot at. And now I have to start factoring this Thomas Emmanuel Roland Frederick Xavier Waverly-Edwards into the equation, you know what that means? I have to go and get another body out there to watch him. Helus knows that's going to be a mess. Seriously Emerson sort the damn communications staff out and let me sort the transportation out."

"I agree with you." Emerson said he'd spent the morning shaking his head with despair at the news reports "Call Rion see who she can spare, tell Gemma to expect company."
"Ok." Kayleigh said "What about the press?"
"Oh I'll be having words." Emerson said "What do you want to do about the transport?"
"I want the Austrana and Estvua tucked safely in port in Rokkenjima, I want a jet out there in Tytor with a fighter escort, and I want it on the down low." Kayleigh said "Unless of course we really want to make Gemma's job ten times harder than it already is, let's keep this under control."
"No guarantees Evanthe will like that." Emerson said
"Protecting the family means we don't want to draw attention, the media know Euphemia's in Northfort, they know where Evanthe is because she's the Empress and they know that Beatrice is under house arrest in Dartfordia." Kayleigh said "So when they see a yacht based in Tytor, a nation where Adriana is being educated and they see it leave it's a safe bet she's on it."
"I know that." Emerson said "And I'll point it out to Evanthe but this is going to take more than simple steps."
"All right." Kayleigh said

Emerson stepped out of his office a few minutes later and looked around "Yuriko!" he said in a raised voice getting the attention of the Imperial Councillor for Foreign Affairs Yuriko Faust a former Premier.
"Yes?" Yuriko asked
"Who worded the press statement on the Kaitaine situation?" Emerson said "Please tell me this got checked before it got released. Because it's badly judged, no legal grounding, no explanation just a 'they are terrorists' what's the reason? In order to make that statement you have to be able to back it up we actually can't unless someone has discovered new intelligence in the last twenty four hours."
"I'll find out." Yuriko said

As Yuriko walked away Emerson sighed, today was such a lovely day outside as well, why did he always have to be the hall monitor around Pyrena? He'd been brought in to steady the ship and that would be a whole lot easier to do if he didn't have to constantly rein people in.

Achkaerin:
Radical Measures

Building a foundation for Asuna in advance of her reign... that was the job that had been the focus of Emerson Ravenswoods tenure as Viceregent he'd started as the outsider brought in as the confidant, then he'd become the scutineer building an imperial council that wasn't there to say yes but was there to interrogate and vet every decision of the Empress and how that idea had gone to hell in a handcart on Kyoko's watch. But that was nothing compared to the outright damage that Charles Ofdensen had sparked, the true damage had been done not by Charles but by the manner in which his steps had been countered, heavy handed was the word that came to mind but if there was one thing to be grateful for it was that Charles had successfully exposed the weaknesses of Rokkenjima's government. So for the third time Emerson found himself at the rebuilding stage the differences? Asuna was now Empress and after recent events the need for reform was far more obvious than it had ever been. However rebuilding was far more difficult when you spent so much of your time firefighting which was another consequence of successive Rokkenjiman governments. There was a knock on the door frame followed by a woman's voice "Excuse me is this the Viceregent's office?" Emerson looked up to see his sister Jacinta standing there.
"Well it is for the next few months until McKenna takes over." Emerson said standing up and going over to embrace his sister
"Hayley's here" Jacinta said referring to her daughter "Lucius's CPT would you believe."
"She'll enjoy that." Emerson said
"So where's my desk?" Jacinta asked
"Office right across the hall." Emerson said "You ready to rewrite the Rokkenjiman Constitution?"
"Let me see what I can come up with." Jacinta said "How long have I got?"
"Elections for the Premier and the Diet have to be held no later than the 15th of July or the Constitution as it presently stands is violated." Emerson said "We'll need to be ready to go shortly after that or sooner depending on when the elections end up happening."
"Ok so first I find the weaknesses and then I figure out what to do about them." Jacinta said
"And then we write the speech to convince the Diet." Emerson said

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