**Experience—Ludovico Einaudi, Daniel Hope, I Virtuosi Italiani**
Aunt Nyra was both a test and a challenge—a chance for Ember to prove just how well she had mastered her new identity as Elara. Like Calliok Vex, Nyra wasn't supposed to know she was a fake.
The woman was a stunning beauty…just like the Queen. And the first time she saw Ember, the first words that left her lips were,
"It's bad enough that my cousin dearest is prettier than me, but now, her daughter is even prettier?" She had finished with a pout.
Ember wasn't ignorant to her own appearance of course. As the years glided by, she had morphed from a scrawny, freckle-faced child to a 'dangerous beauty' as Nyra herself had described her as.
Although the woman had added that her beauty must be managed lest it destroyed her herself.
Aunt Nyra was supposed to teach her what she termed 'weaponized femininity' and she started her lessons by bemoaning how women were an 'endangered species'.
