"See that princess standing there, so haughty and confident. They say she has pretensions of a literary nature. Let us hope she finds solace in such things; she'll have little else..."



For me, this just captures perfectly the solitary future of Irulan. Though in some ways, she was the most free of anyone. Her position unshackled her from the forces that twisted and turned others around her. It was a solitary life, but it was hers; she owned it.