Royal by Blood

The letter was brought to the Hauhkuno and read. Not thinking anything of the request and seeing that expenses would be covered, he had some apartments readied in the Sluut for the princess as well as some Yamato slaves, who were to have their vocal cords cut except for one, who was blinded. After a moments consideration, he also had the male ones fully emasculated. She would likely require some sort of remedial education, so he fetched a list of pedagogues he had rejected for his children and found the ones most reliable. Poetry, mathematics, economics, history, reading and writing, rhetoric, and religion would do nicely for a start.

With most of the preparations ordered, he took up his pen and sent back a short reply accepting to host her.