The escalating personal and operational rivalry between Zadek and Grendel’s faction over control of the royal bodyguard and protection of the Crown

The coronation room erupts into panic as the Princess’s carefully engineered disguise fails during the ritual. The Archimandrite’s cry that the android’s wig has come off exposes the truth, revealing …

Grendel uses the android Princess's exposure to propose placing his personal guard at the King's side, a move that masks his true intent to tighten control over the throne. Zadek …