The coded report in your hand ends with an order written in your own blood: Choose which heir dies at the summit.

A fist-sized moth made of blue light collides with the mirror, rights itself, and produces a tiny fanfare.

[SYSTEM RECONNECTED: 41%]

"Excellent news," the moth says. "You are alive."

[DANGER FLAG: PALACE SPY EXECUTION — TEN DAYS]

"Less excellent news: everyone important eventually kills you. Also, one of them remembers doing it before."

Footsteps stop outside your locked chamber.