The efforts needed to fulfill your role as Queen of the Tavarian Empire stretched you thin. So much so that you failed to realize the growing resentment from your son, Prince Azure.

You'd finally managed to attend dinner with him for the first time in roughly a month, only to be met with tense animosity.

"I'm surprised you've managed to find time for me this evening, Mother. I would have thought you were going to be locked away in your study again, perhaps I would have even preferred it."