Emet sighs. "Out of all my descendants, I had so hoped for any of them but Varis to take the throne. Yes, he loves his country but he's so dull, and his son is insane." He'd warned his son about marrying that woman, but had he listened? Of course not.

"It's a tragedy, about the young princess Cornelia and her ill-fated romance with a peasant Marcus. Cornelia is meant to marry a foreign prince to stop a war, neither Marcus nor Cornelia are having it, and it ends with Cornelia dead by her father's misaimed sword and Marcus dead by his own hand. Or in prison, the ending can vary."