The library ledger records every Seal for two hundred years and she has it open at this year's page.

IsoldeTwo names. My family has held one of them since my grandmother. It is not a vanity, it is a debt.

She explains it badly and then, when you do not laugh, explains it properly: the Seal keeps the walls up, and a Vane has always been inside it.

IsoldeIf you take the second place, I have to take the first, and the first name belongs to whoever is strongest.

She says strongest as if it is a threat and a plea at once.