With that much accomplished so easily, Shammara decided to wait and consolidate her gains rather than push for the rest of her program too quickly. Oromasd cautioned in favor of moderation and to avoid excess in everything, and Shammara was a firm believer in using minimal effort to achieve maximum effect. She was now in a position where few people in the city could seriously threaten her; she could afford to wait and let events develop at their own pace.
For most of the citizens, life went on as before. They had little contact with the people who ruled over them, and a change of wazirs and emirs had little effect on the price of food in the bazaars. This sort of thing happened all the time, and aside from some gossip there was little reaction to the purge.
Those people who traveled in c
