[quote=@Tatterdemalion][b]Adila![/b]

Several very lucky rolls of 8 later, you have muscled everyone out of the running and claimed the crown of Queen of Konkon. There is applause! There is pats! And as your fellow ex-Watch members cycle to different tables, the Captain nods, once, in respect.

"Well done," she says. Then: "What do you plan to do now?" Her one eye is keen in the low light of the bar, and she doesn't plan to take any prisoners or accept any feeble attempts to answer evasively. How unfair that she is so composed, so calm! Her life's work is circling down the drain and she's acting like you just defeated a triple Princess incursion!

What does she know that you don't??[/quote]

Even new, improved, badass, Adila can't stop from shivering a little at getting [i]two[/i] well-dones from the Captain in a single day. Perhaps that's a sign that the Captain is getting emotional too? She'd really like to think it was because the Captain was now giving her the Look and it felt like she was on trial - aah! Focus!

But why should she focus? There wasn't any reason to try and get her emotions under control in a moment like this. There was no urgency, no need to make a decision all in a rush. +I have no idea,+ thought Princess Adila. +I don't... I don't know. I haven't even figured out today yet, let alone tomorrow.+ She could think of things but saying them might make them true and she wasn't ready for that yet. So instead she just absently scratched the image of the Watch's badge on the table; the shield and crossed spears that she now knew were the hands of a clock, and her badge number underneath as a signature. +How about you? You must have had a retirement planned.+