"Of course, Alexis..." Amara replied with a smile. But at the response, she frowned, her fingers slowly sliding up and down along the arm of her chair before she spoke. "She is...not trustworthy, in the end. I've managed to overcome that with magic, but the only chance we have of using her is to use her to take her House, letting her think that she'll be the one ruling, and then breaking her mind. She's...the hyper-dominant type. She'll rule, or she'll break. You cannot make her<em>submit</em>."