The restless faction, like the remnants of the Kadari and the Roland family, are in secret meetings and recruiting soldiers. They have waited too long for this moment.
The indifferent faction, controlling the economic lifeblood: the business associations, the treasury department, the Imperial Capital's foreign trade office... They are silent, but they are watching, watching who will be the next center.
She wrote in the letter with meticulous handwriting:
They are all waiting for the one who can first step onto the stage and present a new Emperor or proclaim themselves as Regent King.
And this is the gamble about to change the entire Empire's fate.
At the end of the letter, she wrote specific action suggestions: The Duke must immediately privately notify all distant Calvin relatives to be vigilant about the sweeping impact of the "royal succession dispute" among the old nobility.
