Full Citizen (16)

Lin Arclight knew.

“You brought the ‘princess’ along today too, I see?”

She knew what the woman before her, Rea Valenkroft, meant by those words.

She had been woefully ignorant of how the world worked.

She knew that the word ‘princess’ clearly referred to her, but she did not take Rea’s provocation.

No, rather, because she acknowledged it to some extent.

She had felt that keenly through the brief but intense experience she had endured.

She was twenty-two. Though several years had passed since she became an adult, how much trouble had her immature actions caused those around her?

But look at Rea Valenkroft.

Though she was also twenty-two, she had risen from the bottom to become the head of a corporation...