Even though Heena spent most of her visible time with Larus—walking gardens, drinking tea, laughing over shared meals—that didn't mean she'd stopped working.
In fact, she was systematically dismantling her consorts' power bases.
Slowly. Quietly. From angles they wouldn't notice until it was too late.
She wasn't dramatic about it. Didn't march into their offices and strip them of titles. Didn't make grand proclamations. She simply… redirected things. Shifted foundations. Pulled support structures out from under them one brick at a time while they were distracted trying to figure out what she was doing with the Marus prince.
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''The Knight Commander's Power: Redirected''
Heena had established a police force.
It sounds simple when said like that, but in practice, it was revolutionary.
