When everything came down to it—to the bare, rusting stateroom walls of it—Nadashe had very little left to her but hate for the emperox, and the continuing frustration that the aggravating naïf who held the title continued to exist. At this point, if Nadashe did nothing else but bring down Grayland II, she’d consider herself even in the game of life. But of course she—still!—had other, grander plans than that.
