““And just as many are going to want to see you succeed,” he interrupted. “Yes, of course.” She waved her hand to brush that aside. “Those people, however, are people like me. That is, not precisely like me, I am the woman in charge, but I am a woman. I don’t have any intrinsic power. If it weren’t for this external thing that has happened to me, I would be as powerless as any of the people who depend on the duchy for their livelihoods. It’s unnerving.””
