Alicia, using the alias Rosa, entered the Golden Lion Palace. Relying not on her status or outside assistance, but rather on observation, disguise, and setting traps in reverse, she rose step by step from a laundry worker to become a personal lady-in-waiting to Queen and Regent Isabella. Isabella did not truly trust her, but she confirmed that Rosa’s status as a refugee could be verified through the parish baptismal records and refugee registries; her burns were genuine; she had no family or connections; she outwardly despised the Royal House of Valencia; and she had repeatedly provided verifiable bits of intelligence. Therefore, Isabella concluded that Rosa was clever but lacked influence and could only rely on her. Rosa exploited this “controllable trust” to gain access to the North Tower, where she obtained the map of the East Valley Fortress, the deed of transfer for the fiefdom, and the king’s medication ledger. The fake princess had long since recognized her and attempted to silence her through theft, poisoning, assassination, and kidnapping—all of which Rosa turned into evidence against her. At the wedding, Cecilia, determined to go down fighting, exposed Rosa as the princess; Rosa willingly accepted execution in the town square, turning the execution site into a tribunal, overthrowing Isabella, capturing Walter alive, and defusing the bomb on the throne. In the end, she first cleared the names of those wrongfully accused in the border case and returned their lands, th
