Crowned in Fire — Episode 10

No need for unease. You need only linger at my back and tend to my goblet. Grand noble feasts, lofty daisies and humble stations. They always like to use those things to remind me where I should stand.

Remember your stations. Tomorrow, be very clear about what words to speak and what to hold back. Understood. The outer winds grow sharp, go inside.

side. I have never been confused about who I am, but being a half-blood tool won't be my identity forever. Loris, her holiness has returned. What plans have you laid for this half-blood versed in draconic? She well understands her stations. She has stood at the altar in her Her holiness is stead for so many years.

Folk beyond these walls truly believed she was about to become the Dragon Queen. She could never merit such a station. Now holiness is back, she should retreat to being nothing more than a tool. Even a tool, used long enough, might develop improper thoughts, wouldn't it?

The Blood Pact is in my hands. She dare not harbor such delusions. All those eight years of toil I endured to settle my blood it. Within his gaze it amounts to nothing but cowardry.