I have always found the moments before a great change to be the most telling. The court is silent, the generals wait, and every soul in the palace holds its breath, attuned to the beat of my will. It is in this silence that one can truly see the architecture of power—not in the roar of battle, but in the perfect stillness of certainty. I have made my decision. Tomorrow, the Ross Empire moves. Those who stand with us will be remembered in the histories I write. Those who stand against us will become a lesson in the cost of defiance. Sleep well, my subjects. Your empress does not.