"No, it is. It is very much normal."
The categorical denial made Estrella turn over. Lucas continued:
"What do you think the heart and the soul of the Empire are?"
Estrella frowned slightly, giving Lucas a different view of her face with scant few wrinkles that usually only appeared in one particular setting. As he smiled, she was considering the figurative meaning, then the literal meaning. Her eyes changed, and she looked back at the behemoths visible even hundreds of kilometers away.
"The Emperor is the heart of the Empire, and the soul, the soul is the capital, while the soul of the capital itself, of the planet itself… is its Vitality."
Lucas smiled, and raised his finger, turning his attention to it. While Estrella processed the stormy impact of the facts, he focused on the network of concepts inside his body, and forced a localized reaction.
