Question 7: Plans for the queens

[Lafayette Public Library]

How does each family plan on making their queen the queen? Are their methods justified? Why or Why not?

[Lacey]

The family of Mirabella is confident in her powers, but they doubt her ability to actually kill her sisters because of her compassion, so they start rumors to initiate an old tradition known as "the white handed queen." This occurs when a single queen is much stronger than the remaining two, so she isn't expected to kill the other two sisters herself. Instead, the other two queens are captured and killed in a mob-like fashion by the supporters. In this case, this was probably the best course of action from the family's perspective, but of course the reader and Mirabella do not agree that it's justifiable. :)

Katharine's family has been planning and prepping for years for her to show off her ability to consume large amounts of poisons in front of a crowd with little to no symptoms, and this is a very bad idea since she has not received her powers yet and suffers a great deal from it all. This is just a catastrophe waiting to happen.

Arsinoe hasn't received her naturalist powers yet either, but she has a family friend, Madrigal, who can perform low magic. Arisnoe also has the support of her best friend Jules, who is a very powerful naturalist and has a mountain lion as a familiar. Between her two supporters, they decide to use low magic to link Arsinoe to a bear to give the appearance that it is indeed her familiar. This isn't the worst or best plan. It is risky because the plan may not even work and will be difficult to do, but also because using low magic has negative consequences later.