An ancient verdict personified, one of the balances by which order renews itself. Where she passes, sovereignty folds inwards, and power confesses its own exhaustion. She is not ambitious, but absolute: the act of separation that restores equilibrium through severance. Conquest is the consequence of persistence taken too far; the end that authority writes for itself. Through her, the text reminds us that dominion is never owned, only borrowed—and always reclaimed.
