Her methods also created political noise. She raided a concubine's palace—something that wasn't "proper," even if she had authority as a royal seat holder. Elara did it anyway because she believed the concubine had done something wrong, and she didn't want palace rules to protect someone who was actively rotting the system from inside. That one move told everyone two things at once: she wasn't scared of noble women with titles, and she wasn't going to let "tradition" stop her from enforcing control.
Inside her own palace, she rebuilt like a CEO fixing a corrupted company. She treated missing staff as fraud, ordered her beast knights into teams, pulled back "ghost" employees who were being paid by palace but serving outside god kmows where , and started interrogations to find who authorized the theft
Week One: The Hiring Nightmare
