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Reigning Sovereign of the Republic and Darrow's wife, ruling a fractious Senate with a cat's smile.
Once the brilliant Institute rival who became Darrow's love and co-commander, Mustang—Virginia au Augustus, daughter of the murdered ArchGovernor Nero—rose after the fall of Octavia to be hailed Sovereign of the Solar Republic. She wielded her power to dismantle the old hierarchy and, by her own choice, diminished the Sovereign's strength in the New Compact to give the Senate a voice. She greets her husband at the summit of the New Forum stairs after a year apart, bearing the Dawn Scepter recast into the Republic's fourteen-pointed star.
She governs from the Palace of Light in Hyperion while keeping Silene as the family's true home, mother to their son Pax—and now must manage a Senate where her ally-husband's law-breaking Iron Rain has emboldened Dancer's Vox Populi against them both.
A Gold woman with golden hair bound tight behind her head, an elegant, distant face—small nose, piercing eyes behind thick lashes, and a mischievous cat's smile; clad in a pure white unribboned tunic, bearing the Dawn Scepter.
Sovereign of the Solar Republic; Darrow's wife and political anchor, holding a divided government together.
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