Ambassador Londo Mollari :

Why is she still here? Probably because the emperor gave the order.





After that, I doubt he gave it much thought, and thus forgot to countermand the order.





These things happen in a monarchy.



When I was still new to the royal palace, I looked out the window and saw a guard standing in the middle of a courtyard; nothing to protect, nothing to guard, no doors.



I couldn't figure out what he was guarding, so I asked around.

No one knew, not even the emperor.



Finally, they searched through the old records and found the truth; that 200 years before, as winter came to an end, the emperor's daughter saw the first flower growing up through the snow.



To keep anyone from walking on it she assigned a guard to stand watch over it every day.



After that, she never gave it much thought, and thus never countermanded the order.



As a result, every day, for 200 years, a guard would stand in that place, long after the flower was gone.



Long after the reason had been forgotten.