[She touches her own symbol, sliding her fingertips over the snakes' scales with a thoughtful 'hmm'.] I'll be spending quite a bit of time here... Treachery is not something I can say I'm familiar with. I suppose I will have plenty of time to learn.

[Despite her words she doesn't sound at all reluctant or melancholy about it; it's simply another interesting thing to study. Her people adored her, this she knew with utmost certainty and was all she had ever known.

In a way she saw this kingdom as a bit of a project, an experiment to play with and see what worked and what didn't as she studied the ruling family and the courts. A chance at a crash-course education in ruling.

She couldn't help but smile] May I ask why the mockingbird?