“Because it’s a power grab,” Lo Teiran says, nodding at Tyndale. “She’ll be next in line for succession if we’re attempting to force Athanatos’s resignation.” “She didn’t stay at the Palace as a power grab,” I scoff. The idea is so ludicrous I don’t know how to begin explaining. Even if I didn’t fully understand why she stayed with Atreus, I know as I breathe that it wasn’t for any reason as crude as ambition.