A week passed rather quickly.
However, despite the senate gathering in less than a day, her workload still did not decrease; on the contrary, it grew by 3 fold.
Angry nobility, discontented citizens and rampant starvation in low-income areas.
All of these issues just kept piling up.
Aurelia gripped her head as she went over another written request.
Why did she have to deal with all of this?
She understood it well, she wished to prove herself to her future husband.
For that goal, she had to prove herself as a capable ruler, then worthy of his love, and finally worthy of being a mother once she finally fulfilled her goals.
And yet her first trial was already proving overwhelming.
She currently sat in the royal office, hard at work filling and stamping the documents, despite not being crowned, she still had to fulfil royal duties.
A bible Cedric had gifted her sat at the edge of the table with Zenith leaning against it, items she carried everywhere as they were gifts from her beloved.
A burden of rulership was grand after all, even more than leading a legion, Aurelia had no idea how her beloved did it.
Just as she was to wallow in her misery, she heard steps behind her closed doors.
Knock.Knock.Knock.
She straightened herself up, "Enter!"
Doors slowly opened and made way for a familiar figure dressed in gold.
"MOM!" Aurelia blurted.
A moment of silence reigned between them.
Raguel blinked, "You do know I am not your mother?"
"I... Uhh... I do..." Aurelia sighed, not believing she had blurted out her inner thoughts.
Raguel's lip curled into a slight smile, "It is ok, If it makes you feel better, you may call me as such."
Aurelia looked up, "Really?!"
"Yes."
Raguel approached the table covered by piles of documents and missives.
Her eyes scanned them, and then Aurelia, "Aurelia..." She spoke softly.
"Are you handling all of this alone?!" She shouted, her hands slamming against the table just enough not to break it.
"Yes..."
Raguel's brows furrowed for a moment as she stared into Aurelia's soul.
"I guess it is my fault." She leaned closer.
Aurelia leaned back, "What do you mean, Mom?"
She slammed her hands again, "Second lesson! Ruler should delegate to capable subordinates!"
"Eh, but!" Aurelia tried to defend herself, but she found Raguel's finger on top of her lips.
"Shush, you need to learn." She smiled before sitting at the edge of the table and picking up a document.
Her golden eyes darted from side to side, analyzing each word.
Her mood soured, "A queen shouldn't need to bother with these low-level requests."
"But... nobody else.."
"Shush..." Raguel silenced her again.
"You have me, don't you?" Raguel smiled as she walked over to a nearby chair and brought it close.
She leaned over and picked up a large majority of the documents.
"Aurelia, you will need to learn to delegate." She sighed, "Otherwise, you will overwork yourself to death no matter how powerful you are."
Aurelia merely listened, not daring to interrupt.
"Your body might be powerful now, but your mind is prone to exhaustion. You are a human after all."
She stared over the piece of parchment, "Aurelia. Call in your Archangels."
With a nod, Aurelia shouted, "Ladios, Lucious, Rayn, come in!"
After a moment, the trio made their way in.
"The second lesson of rulership is delegation, your advisors are all capable, and yet you only have them stand guard!" Her stare turned to the trio, her hands holding a stack of documents.
"Especially these two." She pointed towards Rayn and Lucious, who winced in fear. "I'm not gonna eat you, take this."
"Lady Raguel, what is this?" Lucious asked sheepishly.
"You are to help Father's future wife in her queenly duty. You and your husband had experience with ruling before, didn't you?" She asked with a tone indicating demand and not a request.
Lucious nodded.
Her gaze turned to Ladios, who, out of the trio, never had any experience with rulership, but being an archangel naturally granted higher intellect so in all metrics, he should excel.
Without a word, he accepted a massive stack of documents.
Aurelia raised her hand in protest, clearly not wanting to burden her subordinates.
However, she was interrupted by Lucious, "Lady Aurelia, it will be an honor to split such a duty. Let us help."
Other Archangels nodded in agreement.
A small tear formed in Aurelia's eye, which she quickly wiped.
"You... Thank you..." Aurelia sniffed.
Only a relatively small stack of documents remained, and yet as Aurelia stretched her arms to take them, she found them missing and instead in the hands of a distant form of Raguel.
"I will handle these, you did enough. Go rest, your archangels will handle everything without issues." Raguel smiled before making her way out of the office.
Aurelia blinked in surprise. What once seemed like a herculean task awaiting her was just reduced to not even having anything to do.
The archangel trio didn't spare any time as they started working on an immense number of requests and pleas.
She wanted to help them, it felt wrong to let her dear Archangel guardians do this kind of work, and yet when she attempted to take a document.
"No, Lady Aurelia, nobody wishes to defy Lady Raguel. You can go rest." Lucious tilted her head as she smiled.
"But..." She sighed, "Fine."
'Raguel, no Mom is absolutely amazing.' She smiled as she made her way out of the office.
Instead of having a headache of signing and stamping at least 2000 documents, Raguel had just split that task between 4 individuals, making it trivially easy and freeing Aurelia completely.
She passed the garden where she saw Raguel going over documents with such speed that she wouldn't have believed that she even read them... If it wasn't Raguel.
Golden Angel turned to her with a smile on her face before returning to work.
'I guess her lessons are really important...' Aurelia looked up, until now nobody had deigned to give her a proper education.
And yet her beloved angels were doing it just for her.
'I love Cedric,' She smiled, 'And I love all of the Angels!'
She truly felt that she had a real family, not some people who used that tie to exploit her, but people who cherished her.
Aurelia could only swear that she would not disappoint her future husband or the Angels that served as her most loyal advisors.