Chapter 182: Q: Crowded Time

More people than Rafaela could ever have imagined wanted to communicate with her. 

Sometimes they wanted to give their advice, or ideas. Sometimes they wanted to make sure that their complaints were heard. She wished she could compress time enough to interact with each of them, but there weren't enough seconds in a single week to have given a single one to each, and that wouldn't have been enough time for even a system as fast as Sys20si to review them.

She wasn't certain whether or not Brendan would have been inundated with communications from as many people. She doubted that as many of them would have seemed to be as certain that they knew exactly how things should be done to improve things in the system. 

Rafaela suspected that a number of the requests came from people who were reacting to the fact that the new Queen had performed all the traditional public duties of the first week that the King would ordinarily have.