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    Maia wakes up first, the morning after their wedding night.

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  2. Public Bookmark 6

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    It's nearly midnight when he receives the message. Filtered through the careful courtesy of an Alcethmeret page, it comes as a simple summons, scrubbed of nearly all the anxiety and urgency he knows the emperor too well to assume is not present.

    There are no details. The emperor knows him too well to assume he'd need them.

    A late night conversation between secretary and emperor.

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    30 May 2026

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    “You have it in your head that by taking yourself to the Alcethmeret, you are doing the emperor some great piece of… charity, loyalty, fidelity, we know not what,” the Dowager Marchioness had said to her. “Divest yourself of this notion. It achieves none of these things. What it achieves, is giving you nowhere to run when you put a foot wrong— which will happen, mark us on that point. The only way this foolish play can possibly work for you is if you are lucky. Pray do you think yourself lucky, Csethiro Ceredin?”

    The fact was she did not, and indeed never had since she had been fifteen or sixteen— but she had not found the humility to say as much to her grandmother.

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    12 Apr 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 63

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    “So,” he said, “You are to be our grandson’s wife.”
    “An it pleases His Serenity and our father,” said Csethiro Ceredin. Her voice was deeper than he had expected, and she seemed to have to work to keep it from carrying.
    “And how does it please Csethiro Ceredin, pray?” said Maru. 
    “As well as it pleases any lady chosen to be Zhasan, we have no doubt,” said Csethiro coolly. 
    Saying that to Chenelo Sevraseched’s father was either stupid or deliberately brassy, and Maru had already ruled out the likelihood of her being stupid.

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    23 Jan 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 41

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    It is not so very difficult to lay an emperor low. They all see that now. All one needs is an empty room, a span of less than five minutes, and a boot.

    Princess Sheveän decides she cannot rely upon her own household’s armsmen to assist with ousting the emperor, opting instead to bring in outside help. Maia reaps the consequences.

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    06 Jan 2026