"Well, we made her Queen when she was eleven, and that made it her job to make sure no one could climb the Tower. It wasn't enough to beat anyone who challenged her, she had to, well, crush them. There were dozens, maybe hundreds, of promising riders who quit AirTrek after facing her."

She sighed. "Never complained about it, but I know it wasn't what she wanted to be doing."

"Which I'm glad of, really. I mean, I would have been a lot more worried if my little sister liked crippling people for the crime of challenging her."