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[As she absorbs that, her expression becomes icy, extending very clearly to her brief silence; the words she'd argued against so hard are now coming out of the one she'd desperately-- naively?-- wanted to believe in. It's not entirely anger that Saya was apparently right all along, but... disappointment, yes, and growing self-reproach]
...So. You're saying little has actually changed. [Just this queen not being unhinged like the last, really]