As Sophia left the Castle, Emma appeared near her.
"Do you have any way of getting to where Matthew is?" Emma asked.
Sophia smiled. "Why are you so sure he'll win? You didn't even listen to anything your family told you."
Emma sighed. "It's not about winning or not winning. If we keep holding back to take on these guys, we'll lose a lot of our leverage. The Head Heirs are getting more and more off track. One is following the way of the spear, never killing rivals who may grow to threaten him. Another wants to have fun with silly situations and a childish view of the world. The other is looking for rivals outside our territories, so I can count most of them. We are weakening ourselves without realizing it, and our grandparents' generation is deteriorating."
