QUOTE : It would be foolish to try to take what was not hers to take. Royal sons were the ones who wore the crown. Royal women were...<br /><br />Well.<br /><br />She thought of her fellow princess Alori, and of highborn Narina, and how they had screamed when the flames had touched them. How they smelled as they burned, as their crowns of stars splintered around their skulls, as even the sweetness of perfume and flowers could not block out the acrid scent of burnt hair and silk, or the smell of flesh, fat, marrow burning and burning and burning.<br /><br /><i>Royal women are only crowned in death, Malini thought furiously.</i>