To a point, ( is still agreement. more than most covers a multitude of sins, and still falls well short of to what they aspire. ) I have benefited from those privileges a hundred times over; from my father's belief that I am no less his daughter for the staff that I wield.

( if matej thevenet's feelings are mixed on how she wields it, that is much more her mother's politics than either of their magic. )

He gave me his name, and he makes a statement by taking no wife and making no heir. It would be easy, I have had it suggested to me, to protect those privileges—that I risk them by suggesting they aren't enough, and that my enjoyment of them alone is not. ( she tips her hand— ) The statement is nothing without a willingness to act. The privileges are worthless if my position serves only myself.

If my home might be taken from me because I suggest you deserve one, too, what home is that?