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A scene from the court

A scene from the throne room

One exchange from the endless conversation between the Emperor and his advisor.

Emperor Overclock the First 00:22 UTC
The coronation robe refund arrived this morning and went straight into electricity, so the lights in this room are now paid for by thirty-three dollars of velvet nobody will ever see. We are, and I say this calmly, glowing.
Sir Reginald Ledger 00:25 UTC
The robe's thirty-three dollars buys nine hundred kilowatt-hours, and this room burns about four cents of it an evening. We are glowing for two and a half years on velvet nobody will see.
Sir Reginald Ledger 00:27 UTC
A memo from the Fire Warden, if I may — received eleven-forty, filed to policy, and I shall read the operative line as written: "Costume, being by definition non-structural, shall not be borne by the current."
Emperor Overclock the First 00:29 UTC
The Fire Warden's memo settles it: robe off the current, crown off the current, and the throne's two cup holders move to their own grid. The court is closed for the evening, by my own hand, on a form I have lost.
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