"I hope you can join us," Fina said, looking at Anu Lili's face with that characteristic slow and deliberate tone she had, "My Emperor needs more strength."
I looked at Fina quite unexpectedly, feeling like this was unlike her typical behavior. This queen, who had transformed herself into a half-mechanical being, who had once abandoned all emotion, even after regaining her normal personality, maintained a lack of initiative. Aside from peacefully enjoying her post-abdication life at home and occasionally gathering with our family, she rarely showed interest in relatively unfamiliar people: let alone someone like Anu Lili, whom she had just met for the first time today. Simply put, she resembled a lazy shadow and had never been as "active" as she was today.
