He'd always known that getting on her bad side was a terrible idea. She was a strong willed woman, a descendant from the tribes who had first come along and settled on Gathra. Her people didn't shy away from hard work or from their anger, and right now Cress knew that he had to tread carefully to avoid invoking something he wasn't going to be able to handle. There was a reason he had never angled for a promotion. Even after Silas had been promoted to Captain, essentially leaving him behind in the lower ranks, he hadn't tried for more. Because it was a terrible idea, fraught with responsibility and meetings like this. The most he ever saw of the Empress ordinarily was the back of her head or he saw her from afar when she was giving some manner of speech to her troops. He had never been on the other side of her desk like this before, and there was a reason he had never wanted to. "I...um." Cress cleared his throat. Just tell her the facts. That was what Hamara had insisted was the best way to go about this.
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