"I'm not unaccustomed to having people ahead of me to claim my spot for the throne. You forget that it is only in the past few years that succession laws were changed in Atlantis to allow for proper queens in their own right. I've always had to...put in more effort for what I saw as mine." She shrugged. "My sister is used to getting by, to an extent, on the merits of her lineage. I'm used to, and better at, getting ahead by the merits of myself. In other words, I'm not going to take it personally. I'm not afraid of proving myself."