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The autocrat had insisted that his return be treated like any of his other small diplomatic trips to the great houses of the empire - nevermind the fact that it lay in another galaxy, with the Coalition of all people -and so the citizens of his beloved capital thought it of no importance that he had returned. Of course, they would remain suitably ignorant until the time came to reveal the plans as they stood - to claim their home galaxy in the name of the Empire, not Scatter.

But such thoughts were of little concern to him at the moment, the man dressed again in humble-yet-commanding trappings, his feet pacing the halls of the palace that he shared with the one for whom he searched. Given three common locales exhausted, Kampf quietly peered through the door to the library once he arrived there. She always was taken with the place.

The Emperor soon moved well inside, displeased with the line of sight such quiet observation imparted him.