"I'm afraid I know nothing specific about this tome. Not its name nor its purpose. I only recognized that the King of Rikkai was acting oddly first by building up his sister and her fiance, and then by the violence of his reaction to my presence and his perception of the threat I posed to them. I guessed that he did not envision a future for himself as your king, and his reaction when I sang to him suggests that the reason for that is that he doesn't believe himself capable of dispelling the dark force controlling him on his own."

She paused to sip at her tea.

"I'm sorry."