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But there was no way for me to have that with him being the emperor.
I sighed and tidied up the materials I used to make the invitations. I guess I was going to have to get used to it.
It could have been worse. Being handed unlimited power in the galaxy wasn’t exactly a hardship.
I smiled at the thought of my friends receiving their invitations.
After I told Fiath about them, he immediately leaped into action and got “his people” to work on locating them. They asked me about the last place I’d seen them and where I thought they might be now.
I had no idea. They were out there in the galaxy somewhere.
It took just a few hours for the investigator to come back with verification that he’d managed to locate one of my friends.
Sirena.
I couldn’t believe it. How could they have found her so quickly?
“She didn’t exactly make it difficult,” the tracker said. “She’s living with Lord Taw and they’re very happy together.”
Lord Taw lived on one of the classier, more well-to-do planets. Typical of Sirena. She always had liked to keep a step above the rest of us when it came to the greasy social ladder.
Except this time. I mean, there was no one more senior than the emperor, was there?
It took two more days before the next friend was found. And they didn’t find just one, but three!
I started to cry when I heard the briefs about their stories and what’d happened to them. They’d each found love—with a Titan, no less!—and although they’d had their hardships along the way, they were now very happy.
Alice turned out to be the hardest to find. When her location was finally discovered, it came as no surprise to me at all. She was the only one of us that’d managed to find their way back to Earth.
She lived there on a large farm with her own Titan—yet again!—and they were very happy.
I got to work finishing off the invitations right away and had them complete within a day.
I was so excited, I could hardly sit still.
Fiath waited for all my friends to be discovered before he announced the date of the ceremony. I could hear the roars of approval from the local townsfolk and the drums ringing out across the countryside.
I counted down the days until I would see my friends again, until I could take them in my arms and breathe them in.
The wedding would take place in the palace where we resided. It wasn’t traditional, but then nothing about our marriage was traditional.
Least of all me.
The Titan emperor was expected to marry for power. That was the way it’d been done for generations. Now, Fiath was to marry someone of low birth and from a planet that was only just getting its toe wet in the galaxy.
The empire became obsessed with me and my home planet.
Millions of Titans booked holidays to visit Earth and explore where their new empress had come from. I could imagine the local people in my hometown, wondering who these strange people suddenly turning up were.
They would assume they were from Europe and would be grateful for the tourism and money they brought to the area. It hadn’t been the same since the mills shut down.
Fiath had to pull some strings and change some laws to ensure he could marry me. There was little resistance. No one argued against the emperor’s wishes.
Then it came to the day before our wedding. My friends would be showing up soon. I couldn’t sleep the entire night, I was so excited.
It’d only really been weeks—weeks to me, at least, since I woke up from that pod—but it could have been months since they woke up.
I wore one of my best new tailor-made dresses and waited on the largest balcony that overlooked the town.
