The queen starts walking again, looping around the table and pacing back the other way. “That is the power I hold in my hands, and you should all be grateful to Ama I was wise enough to reach for it, because someone else would have, and then where would we be? Yonte Saire now has an emperor who could raze villages with the wave of a hand, yet he would not dare pit his forces against mine because I have a power to match his. Our future, my generals, our autonomy is assured, because of my actions.”
