A Kraken Time

Another day another stack. The Queen of the Underworld finally had all of the formalities of her position under proper control, all alliances and such in order, every important matter up to date. It helped that he was no longer in her hair, though she continued to field rumors of him trying to respawn elsewhere. At least tracking down and eliminating those traces got her out of the office every once in a while. That and visiting her little princess. The demoness smiled faintly; it was hard to believe how much the girl had grown since she last saw her, proudly showing of her new skills to her "Nana". Was this what life was like as a grandparent? If so, it was something Ao could get used to.

Her thoughts were interrupted by a prickling in the back of her mind. Since formally taking the reins, she had constructed a rather large weather system, hanging over the entirety of Tartaros. The winds and the rain it produced told her of the comings and goings within her administered territory; lightning punctuating the earth and thunder rolling left its own mark. While draining to maintain at first, since freeing herself from the tithe system and killing the demon who controlled it, Ao found herself with far more ethernano at her disposal. Nonetheless, her attention honed on the new arrivals as they picked their way across her domain. Should she greet them? Aojiro looked at the nearly complete stack of paperwork, thinking.

She disappeared in a crack of thunder, coalescing into storm energy that soared through the weather system. Another earsplitting crack of thunder would sound as a flash of lightning split the sky, revealing her to the new arrivals she had sensed.

"And you are?"