"Prove it then, that you are Balthazar the Black.  What is the secret behind the Sun Throne?"  She was playing a dangerous game, bluffing someone as old and powerful as this spectre, for in truth, she herself did not know the secret her family protected.  It was told only by the High of the Sun and Moon upon the coronation of the new monarch, but, dream or no, it was something Aurora had always striven to learn.