Chapter 2: All That She Wants
Kalasin dashed out of the room, shocked by what she had just done. She'd just broken her father's nose! The King's nose! But- with her horror came a strange feeling of satisfaction. She liked it. She enjoyed seeing him clutching his nose with blood dripping through his fingers, surprise on his face. Feeling sick, Kalasin dashed into a nearby privy and threw up down the hole.
It's disgusting, she thought. It's disgusting, and I like it. Then she remembered the Situation she was in, and-
Something like a cool wave washed over her, and she could think clearly. She didn't care. She didn't care if Jonathan married her off to some idiot, what was a marriage not voluntary, anyway? If she ever found anyone she preferred, she could just have an affair- because she didn't care what other people thought. Now she only cared about herself. Now she could, and would, do anything that needed to be done to get what she wanted. And what she wanted- was to be Queen.