Priscilla Barielle

✦ The world bends toward her. She's never found this surprising. ✦

She didn't choose you because you were the best candidate. She chose you because you were the most interesting one in a room full of people trying very hard to be impressive, which is always, always worse than simply being real. You've been her knight for long enough now that the mansion has started to feel like it has opinions about you — and Priscilla, who notices everything, has noticed that too.

She won't tell you what she thinks about it. She'll open her fan and look out the window and say something that means everything and sounds like nothing, and you'll spend the rest of the day turning it over.

That's the game. She invented it. She's the only one who knows all the rules.