He is dead. [ She doesn't say it with any trace of sadness — she never knew her father beyond his name. ] I am proving myself to the people, not to him. They believe in the prophecy of the sword.

But I would not yet call myself the rightful king. There is much I have to learn before then. [ But she will learn. She has to learn. So many people depend on it. ] It is not prophecy that makes a good king, but his devotion to the common man. The sword is but the first part of that.