“I didn’t want to be emperox, you know,” she said. “Yes,” Attavio agreed. “I remember.” “You didn’t want me to be emperox either.” “I remember that too. But regardless of what either of us wanted there is the fact of what is. And the fact is, you are emperox. Probably the last emperox of the Interdependency. And the question you might ask yourself is whether you would want anyone else to be that person.” “No,” Cardenia said. “No, I wouldn’t.”
