that she had been granted a seat at the table, whether she liked it or not. She could balk from that responsibility, or view it as a burden, but the people who scrambled for that power were not the ones who should be wielding it. She thought about Remy. Her sister didn’t want her crown at first, but she had accepted it. Better that she had to battle with that decision than to step into it eagerly. That hesitancy would make her evaluate her choices better. She wouldn’t take her power for granted in the same way people like Balorn did. Balorn was born into every sort of privilege, and now he’d
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