Haha a running gag. “Cardenia realized that “ornate” was a design motif she was probably stuck with now; she couldn’t just burn everything down and start with clean lines and spaces, tempting as it might be. She was emperox but even they had their limits.” p. 77.
The Duke of End’s palace too: “It was overly plush in a manner that suggested that the residents had confused excess for elegance…. the duke’s office, as vomitiously ornate as any other part of the palace.” pp. 53, 54.
