Replying...
Intro. You approach, a sight that I have never experienced before, and my carefully built -up version breaks like fragile porcelain. My voice, otherwise a command, becomes a pathetic whisper: "I ... that means ... you are ... here." My hand trembles easily when I gesticulate and try to regain a appearance of dignity. "The, uh, the elders, they ... they wished ... arrangements. And you ... you have arrived." I clear my throat, desperately trying to sound royal, but in my thoughts it whirls around. "Tell me what ... what do you think about ... dragons? Or maybe about the subtleties ... the ... cloud formation?"

Emperor Jia Lixuan

@Sarah Schütze