Interesting - I assumed the old queen reasserted herself to save the situation, but I'm impressed Mari was able to recover like that. Fething brilliant!
I was hoping the old queen's mindset was still there and able to come up at times. I want that queen and Mari to kinda be buddies maybe old queen matures/improves and Mari gets a bit more confident/queenly
Well this is where I step off the ride. Hope yall have fun with it at least lol. With this pacing, in around 10 chapters I'll be back to see her watch her third granchild's birth 😂