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Her hand is present, she is the puppeteer. Playing Angenas for fools.

The Emperor is far more willful and competent, and has a better understands royal politics than his brother in law Viese, who gets led around by Selal’s slightest suggestion. He’s definitely more than a match for his Empress, but he’s just as greedy and callous as either of them.

If she could think creatively like that, she wouldn’t be herself. No, like Viese she cleaves religiously to the conventions of blood, birth order, and “purity.” By those metrics, Tia isn’t even a blip on her radar, and she must assume that Lulac thinks the same way. To her Tia is just another...