[The week passes.  Probably at this point, go onto the next
file. (ashes.ember.5.txt)]

[Probably already noting her increasing tan.]

[Probably also have Corrine note to Catherine that they BETTER add
some auto-controlled shutters to the Royal Suites to allow for
darkness, or else Corrine's going to go quietly batty without her RDA
of 'Night'.  Can play up Amberite/Emberite reactions to night and
darkness here.]

[Several days later, in the gym, Corrine goes to work out and work off
some of her nervous energy.  She meets Misaki, commander of the Royal
Bodyguard, and Eowyn (again, severely unsettling Corrine due to the
similarity to her long-dead sister).]

[Morgenstern challenges Corrine.  Corrine takes him up on it, they
spar, and Morgenstern gets thrashed, and also becomes very jovial.
Clearly, they'll get along fine.]

[The formal investiture scene, and swearing of fealty, etc.  Corrine's
more than a little weirded out by the psuedo-shadow of her mother and
sister pledging loyalty, but somehow manages to go through with it.]

[During the middle of the ceremony, before Corrine's about to do
anything, the -Pyricorn- appears at the end of the Great Hall, the
Fire DemiJewel hanging around its neck (wasn't it just in its open
padded case a moment ago, to be handed from Catherine to Corrine?
Well, it -was-...).  It walks down the length of the room, EVERYBODY
staring and totally silent, Corrine herself agape.  It reaches the
front of the hall, at the base of the dias, and -kneels- on its
forelegs, maneuvering its head so that the jewel and chain end up on
the point of its horn, and then stands again, looking -straight at
Corrine-.  Corrine hesitantly gets out of the throne, walks down the
steps, and puts the Jewel around her neck.]

[The pyricorn then 'announces' (its lips don't move, but everyone
-hears- it...) that Corrine is the rightful Queen of Ember, and long
may her reign be, for as long as the stars burn in the skies and the
Patterns thrive.]

        Corrine, Daughter of Gendo, son of Fuyutsuki.  
        Corrine, Daughter of Haruka, daughter of Darien and Serena.
        Corrine, Princess of Amber, Warden of Arden.
        Corrine the First, Rightful Queen of Ember.  
        Long may your reign be, Just and Fair.
        As long as the stars burn in the skies of Amber.
        As long as the Fire Pattern thrives.

[The Pyricorn then vanishes in a burst of flame, leaving 4 hoofprints
scortched in the tiles of the Great Hall.  People manage to recover
their wits, and the scene continues.]

[Include Corrine and Catherine and the Red Knight going to the Van
Gogh exhibit opening? -- prolly not, things would have already been too
'busy' at this point]