Looking Better

Alice leaned back in the chair behind her desk. She rested her cheek on her hand with her right elbow on the arm. She was quietly in thinking.

Robert was an acquaintance of hers. When she was 16 years old, she went to pacify an uprising by farmers as Edward VIII’s representative. She almost died on that trip, but luckily the lower-level and intermediate-level leaders did not really want to fight against the empire. Under their protection, Alice was not only safe, but also stopped the riot. Robert was one of the intermediate-level leaders.