Katelyn seemed a bit lost and depressed when he told her it didn't work like that. She figured she was stuck marrying him no matter how much she protested. After he started talking about iron she mumbled to her self. "The metal of heavens..." He was true that the iron would help strengthen their military. In a class, Katelyn learned a bit about metallurgy. They used bronze in Mandisa which was a step below raw iron. She thought about the fusion of cultures and faiths after that. "But would the gods be mad?"

She was very scared at the thought of the gods abandoning her. They were all she had left. "Ra could even stop raising the sun in his boat! The floods would stop and Chaos Serpent Apep would escape and hurt us!" Katelyn, still intoxicated, was genuinely scared as she spoke. She felt without her deities, she was nothing. Katelyn didn't really understand economics very well. She figured that with all the gold she had, they would be fine forever. She knew her military was strong, but not the strongest so she always tried to make allies. Katelyn's main worry was that if she united into one nation, what would the Mandisans think, and what would the gods think? Olaf then lightly kissed her cheek. Her intoxication got the better of her and she was unable to react. Katelyn just went wide eyed and let him, unknowing of how to stop him.
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Katelyn rushed the door as Zhen came in, trying to escape the guards and get outside. She struggled from the grasp of the man that had been holding her. "Let me go you scum of Set!" She was unable to escape but intended on making a scene. She scowled at Zhen and Olaf as they stared at her, noticing her.