Alene Valcoran has spent much of her life in the margins of Imperial power — quiet, watchful, enduring. But silence is not weakness. And in the wake of unrest, grief, and shifting allegiances, the Queen has stepped from shadow to Senate.
Thirty summers have shaped her into something sharper than ceremony. A mother, a woman who wears diplomacy like armour and never speaks without purpose.
She does not carry a blade.
She does not raise her voice.
But when Alene enters the chamber, the room listens — and the Realm changes.
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