Guiding the Powerful Yet Incompetent, Tuesday, Second Period

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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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Re: Convince the Queen

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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.

Re: Convince the Queen

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"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."

Re: Convince the Queen

[scoffs_at_tradition]

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