Octavia was in her bedroom, lying down on her bed and brooding in thought. Soon, she was on her feet and started to pace about her bedroom, still deep in thought. She alternated between lying on the bed, standing up and pacing, and then going back to sit at the edge of the bed.

Her thoughts spread in numerous branches, but they were all streamlined to the same stem. And that was how to eliminate Andrea and her mother from the palace.

Her last plan failed woefully; in fact, it was dead on ...