The Emperor Knelt·Episode 2 of 2·2:10
Stolen
At a treaty rite, a governor's wife learns what her husband gave the alien Emperor to keep his seat.
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Only their blood can wake a pillar.
The first house ruled before mine.
Murdered in one night.
We never found their daughter.
You think I'm their daughter.
The stone does.
Nobody ever came for me.
You were never his to pledge.
You were stolen from this empire.
He pledged you on a lie.
The pledge is void.
Diane Kessler.
You are the one he wronged.
By the right of the wronged,
the one his lie harmed
may claim his seat.
Or his life.
You're not surprised.
Why aren't you surprised, Grant?
Put your hand on it.
Tell me you didn't know.
And you knew.
I found out who you were
the week before I proposed.
Then why bring me here?