Chapter 40: Greetings
After our performance, the banquet started in full.
The guests started enjoying the dishes and the wine, as various groups formed naturally. People were no longer that stiff nor were their mouths, further loosening up with each progressive glass they drank.
In a single sentence, things got boisterous, finally giving this banquet, a banquet-like atmosphere.
But unfortunately, enjoying wasn't written in my fate, as I was dragged off to 'greet the guests'.
And as simple as this three-word task, 'greet the guests' sounded like, it wasn't.
It was a pain. A real pain.
I literally had to go and greet all the higher nobles above the Count rank, a pain indeed...
But I had to do it regardless, so following the hierarchy we started with the Dukes.
With the Imperial couple handling the political situation, the various factions of the Empire were in a balance.
A fragile balance.
That could break at any moment.