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Arlette's carriage tore through the streets of the Leopold Territory until she was back on the road proper and was driving toward Lochxen.
Neither she nor Caius had said a word to each other since they left the Leopold Estate and she had spent that silence thinking on the things that just happened. Most especially, the authority he had granted her, wondering exactly how she should feel about it.
She had been given a massive amount of responsibility, a lot of control over forces she had been subservient to for years and she should be feeling elated at the moment. Only, she didn't.
She had told Caius once that she disliked the assignment she had been given to become a Professor at Lochxen. This felt a lot like that assignment; It felt like the death of a life of excitement.
