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This week, instead of meeting with the king, the students would find themselves in a lavish bedchamber, where a woman in an ornate dressing gown sat in the bed, reclining against pillows and cradling an infant.

"Last week," Yennefer reminded her students, "you decided to stage a coup, removing the king from power and installing his eldest daughter on the throne, with the queen or, if she is unwilling to rule, an alternate to be determined as regent until the princess comes of age." Yennefer paused, then told them, "I'm so very proud of you all.

"You have an uphill climb ahead of you. This kingdom does not currently allow women to rule at all, so some of the nobility may resist and put themselves forward as alternate monarchs. You of course have to remove the king, but a simple hunting accident can take care of that. You have to prepare the princess to rule, and protect her during turbulent times. You have to not end up chased through the forest by an assassin with knives and a krallach." You know. Purely hypothetically. "But before all of that, you have to convince...the queen."

Yennefer turned to the woman on the bed, who declared, "I would never betray my husband so!"

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Adora

Freya Crescent

Shuri

Illyana Rasputin

Lana Beniko

Nell Ingram

What's a krallach?

The good news is she has two brain cells to rub together.

The bad news is she's naive.

Adora didn't have anything as impressive as she'd done for last week's class, but this might be a situation where her tendency towards guilelessness worked to her advantage.

"It's not so much betraying your husband as looking out for your daughters," she said. If she was like Angella that might work, if she was more like Shadow Weaver...well, it might be enough for completely different reasons.

"But my daughters don't need looking out for," the queen said. "They will make wonderful marriages, and my next child will be a son. I'm sure of it."

She might have subconsciously clutched her baby a little closer as she said it, though.

Adora looked at the queen with her big, earnest grey eyes. "That would require the king to care about them, and we both know he doesn't."

Shuri gave the woman a flat look. "If you think that he isn't already figuring out how to get you out of the way--fatally, most likely--you are a great deal stupider than I think you are."

Tough love: the Wakandan way.

"But why should he do such a thing?" the queen asked. "I am a good and loyal wife! And my next child will certainly be a boy."

"Oh, I can show you the science that says that's not true," Shuri said.

"He's already got an eye on one of your ladies, and he's most likely already hired the assassin," Illyana said bluntly. "Lana had to try and talk him out of having you killed at a banquet and pinning it on Nilfgaard."

"Why would you say such things? He would never!"

A pause.

"...which lady?"

"I think you already know which one, you just don't want to admit it to yourself," Illyana replied. The queen was naïve, not stupid.

Then inspiration struck, and Illyana leaned in. "If...Melitele," that was right, wasn't it? She was pretty sure that's what Yennefer had said. "--wanted him to have a son, he would have a son already. You have been given daughters for a reason. Protect them. Because after you fall, they will be next on the assassin's list to make way for his children with the newest queen."

She can't wait to see what her students come up with this week.

La.

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