Up until this point, Karla had been spinning grand tale in her head. The way she'd been telling it, the Territory expected the Queen to step aside for Snow White as soon as she had her Virgin Night and set up her Court--or, rather, since this world had weird customs, Snow White needed to marry a proper Prince or something before she could ascend the throne. So the evil Queen, was keeping her step-daughter locked away, where she couldn't meet anyone and the Queen could rule forever! It was a magnificent tale of ambition and greed and lust and possibly some deathless vengeance thrown in for good measure!

And then Warren explained the rest of the plot. And Karla's grand story came crashing down around her ears.

"What." That....wasn't a question, no. "I get you to try to kill her because she's pretty? My whole motivation is spite? Petty spite?!"