Three of Olivia's staff come out and they take the trumpet out of his hands and then they blow their platinum ones encrusted with diamonds and and O and C intertwined. They start blaring out a terrible peal....

"Were they recycled from Oberon and Cymnea?" quips Caine

"No," Julian says looking at Fiona still annoyed at her,"Clarissa and Oberon. Olivia bought them at the Salvation Army."

An announcer appears in quartered arms of Amber, the Red Lion of Suhuyways, Olivia's design and Cedric's Cougar, there is a blaring voice with a magical microphone:

"Their Royal Majesties King Cedric and Queen Olivia of Olympica."

"King Cedric is a son of King Oberon and Queen Mirenna of Amber, Duke of Devon in the Golden Circle, of House Cornelius and House Feanor of the Royal Noldor. Queen Olivia is the daughter of Lord Suhuy, Prince of Atlantis, titular King of the Abyss, High Lord of Suhuyways, President Chairman and CEO of the Royal Banking Consortium of Thelbane, President Chairman and CEO of the Haven Banking Group."

Cedric comes over and waves to his mother who leaves her chair and kisses him on the forehead. Xanthus becomes uninvisible and complains about Olivia throwing out his velvet elvis collection.

Lord Mandor takes a small vial of some sort of oily elixir and bottoms it down his throat and passes out in a stupour.

Olivia marches over to the throne, with thirty cats MEOWING behind her. Several claw the chairs and rugs.

Head Cat a mangy grey tabby waves a paw at Oberon and scolds him going "Meorrrrw meerroorrrrwww meerrroowwwwrrrr"

Oberon sighs,"Rory maybe you may want to save me a student condo in Haven City."

"Father in Law." Olivia tells Oberon without bowing,"I have learned you lied about the deposit of elvish gold you claimed to have. Daddy is lowering your credit rating to a C- from a B+. Not even my stupid bitch of a redheaded sister Jasra is that incompetent."

"You are behind in your interest payments." She says,"Plus you are late in the restructuring plans."

"I see Cedric and his stupid relatives (Xanthus glares at her) are letting you off easy." she snorts annoyed,"And Daddy says we cannot foreclose on you because he doesn't want it and Bances can't raise the cash to buy it."

"I am leaving financial advisors to keep an eye on this situation on the city. It is up to you to see that they do not have any accidents."

She indicates the thirty cats to the cat hating Oberon,"My advisors. I expect them to get fine cream and be served in gold and silver and their litterbox changed three times a day."

She turns her back and then goes to sit with Cedric and watch the rest of Court.

Oberon turns to Gram,"Hang everyone in the dungeons. By sunset. I am coming to watch." he says with a silent fury. "Arrest every Mecklenberg and Swayvillist spy and garotte them."

This text is copyright © Craig Lucas; "Amber" is copyright © Roger Zelazny; "Amber" the diceless RPG is copyright © Phage Press. No copyright infringement is intended.

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