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As a girl, Shyla shared none of her sisters' special interest in the younger siblings of the house, nor their wishes for children of their own.
She has never regretted the campaign she waged against her father in the year preceding her majority. Her victory saw her dower sent to the imperial treasury and she left her father's house for the akademy, willingly exchanging the aspiration of matrona for that of magister.
And so, this-- caring she feels toward the young Lord Larsa, not merely for the opportunities he represents but for his person, his thoughts, his affection, mystifies her.