It's a mystery to me as well! Ah, fortune works in strange ways... [ she lets out a breath. ] But... in an odd way, I'm glad of it.

[ nero hums, thinking. to another ruler who's left it all behind just as she has, perhaps she can bear to be a bit more honest about this aspect of herself. ]

Britannia was... one of my reign's greater failures. [ to, you know, put it mildly. ] My heart soars to see someone so similar could rule them well, where I could not.