**The Game Is Afoot—Eternal Eclipse**
Now an expert in calculating gains and losses, Ember was well aware that she had won this round. For even though the Queen mentioned Vaerynne Thorne as a precedent that a woman could rule over the huntsmen, that had been two thousand years ago.
So the fact that the Council was willing to budge in the matter of officially naming her as scion to the throne was applaudable. Getting herself stabbed hadn't been in vain after all.
They weren't doing her a favour of course. Between Cassian's head rolling on the floor, and her entertaining the illusion of ruling over them, they had calculated their losses and gains as well. Which was why they decided on the latter, believing it was their safest choice.
But they were wrong if they thought this was just her illusions. Far from it.
