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I also love the idea of 20 year old Lilith, full of justice and free of spirit, coming into her power and ready to level the playing field— to liberate Navarre from the venin threat. Is she read in to the secret before her peers? Does her signet give her top secret clearance? The hopes for her future are high. Yes the stakes are real, but she is the balance.

Only to end in tragedy when she realizes before her 21st birthday that she’s nothing— nothing compared to the strength of Theophanie.

Every time she wields, she hears the taunts of the venin Sage, telling her she’s not good enough. Every accomplishment in the Navarre army— empty. Hollow.

Each of her children’s births— swallowing the all-consuming fear that she couldn’t protect them if Theophanie came knocking.

The weight is crushing, actually. Oh, it hurts.

“She’s their answer to my mother.” — “She was the answer to me,” Theophanie hisses, and the clouds start to swirl.

“Your mother knew at your age that she was no match for me. That’s why she hid behind those wards. Perhaps you should have followed her example.”

I'm sorry, all I got from this was that those two were in a cat-and-mouse game for 30+ years, which could mean nothing...