She paused, letting that sink in. Then continued: "But let's address your actual concern, Corvus. You don't want accountability. You don't want oversight. You want to maintain the old power structure where clan leaders answered to no one and smaller vampire groups had no voice. That's what this is really about."
"Your Majesty...."
"I'm not finished." The temperature in the room seemed to drop. "You agreed to the reform because you saw which way the political winds were blowing. You knew resistance would isolate you. So you voted in favor, then decided to undermine implementation through constant objection and delay. That stops now."
Corvus's facade of civility cracked. "You cannot order...."
