“I joined this resistance because I’m strongly against what the new emperor represents,” she says. “Mystics must not wield political power: plain and simple. It is an inevitable path to tyranny. Already we see it with this usurper, how he punishes anyone who dares disagree with him. We who are blessed by the Mother must bow to the will of the common folk. That is the KiYonte way and a principle I am willing to die for.”