191 K: Clarifying

Rafaela took one of the few time blocks that weren't scheduled for meetings and snuck up to the top of the tower that Schmidt and Bellamy had constructed. The sight of the untouched workshop and construction dock meant for Brendan caught her attention for a moment.

A private space set aside for the man who had been intended to become King. There were rooms below, deeper in the gravity well that had been intended for her, but they hadn't had their purpose written into their structure the way these compartments had.

She wondered what she would have been doing right now if he had taken the office she held, as everyone else had intended. Focusing on reproducing faster so that she could do missions like the one he was on now, perhaps? Previous Queens had focused on fulfilling the part of the contract that required the heir first.