The Gray Tempest was busy destroying the Milky Way, and was currently taking a beating from four Lost Empires.
Empire Will was active in the Sea of Stars Community every day, exchanging words with the various nations and seeking out Xi Yan for daily chats, enjoying the pleasure of communicating with other intelligent beings.
The L-Dragon roamed around the Empire with its good friend, the Celestial Dragon.
Whenever Xi Yan had nothing to do, he chatted with Empire Will, while also monitoring the entire Empire through the Golden Throne.
I reckon this mother-in-law's still got her charms!
Empire Will showed her gentle side only to Xi Yan. They were both absolute rulers of vast interstellar empires, and they played off each other in the Sea of Stars Community to toy with the other aliens.
Empire Will loved listening to Xi Yan talk about the Human Empire, recounting the history of how the Interstellar Human Military Junta had gone from division to unity, from weakness to strength.
She loved those stories. They were things she had never learned about during the better part of her life spent in the L-Cluster.
Xi Yan, meanwhile, had found an excellent listener and earned Empire Will's immense trust. Compared to those hypocritical aliens, Xi Yan's personality was by far her favorite.
Ta-da! Because Xi Yan was never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, never gonna run around and desert you, never gonna make you cry, never gonna say goodbye, never gonna tell a lie and hurt you!
As a result, several months had passed without anyone discovering that Gray Tempest had slipped out of the L-Cluster.
Miss Gray Tempest had traveled all the way from Terminal Egress to Succubus' Call, then another three systems beyond that.
As she leisurely admired the scenery