Birth Of The Eternal City (3)

Going to war sounds like a simple thing, and well in a video game I guess it is, but when your life is that game you must announce that war, not exactly to your enemy but to your allies, in this case my own people.

And so, after calling a gathering within the capital while messengers rode out on fast horses to all corners of the realm Julius stood on the stone steps at the entrance to his palace gazing down a the mass of people before him.

"We have received an ultimatum from the Remnants of the Lunan Kingdom, and their new Queen. She demands the return of these lands, the subservience of its people, and the end of my life." <Julius >

Speaking slowly so that every word could be heard, while one could say it was not the truth surely if one saw the goings on in Lunan before its fall they would know it was not far from the truth.

The reaction from the crowd was as expected they were angry.