Meiyin may have submitted to the Turning, but she remains my queen-consort in name only.
In the centuries since, she has proved to be my most effective enforcer, killing the last of the warlords who sought to overthrow me, leaving my rule absolute.
Yet she keeps her distance, holding back her innermost thoughts. I could force her to my will, but that would crush my last hope of true companionship.
Most recently, another outsider adversary has arrived on our doorstep, as it happens, someone from my queen's life on the ARKs. This clever interloper has begun to corrupt the borders of my kingdom with mutated wildlife and reanimated thrall corpses he intends to set against us.
This invader amuses me. I will leave it to my Lost Queen to negotiate with her one-time fellow traveller, this 'Edmund Rockwell'.
I expect those negotiations will be brief.