Now Hannah looked at him and saw a selfish, bitter man, jealous of hersuccesses, resentful of his own anonymity. You didn't talk to me. This is the onlyinstance in Japanese history of an Empress succeeding an Empress. She didn't need anyoneelse's emotional baggage.
He may have losthis marbles years ago, but managed to keep a lid on his madness untilnow. It's bad business. A similar interregnum had separated theaccession of Tenchi from the death of his predecessor, the EmpressSaimei, and both events were due to a cognate cause. Procedure, she added as a diplomatic afterthought.
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