Chapter 10. Lady Claire

Claire has never been one to back out of a challenge. All her life she has been taking the bulls by the horns and doing it in grand style. Back at Harvard, she made sure she was the valedictorian, and she did it wearing the most appropriate sluttiest gown. She is a walking contradiction of looks and brain. Her mother taught her everything she knew about being a woman in this cutthroat world of business in Grosthe.

She learned from a young age that the worst way to win a battle with a man was to try to be like him. There is power in femininity. The softness of a woman is her strength. The ability to make a man weak without so much as lifting a finger is the greatest power ever created. Wars are fought because of women.

Are feminine creatures, not muses? They inspired the most beautiful art in the days past. Claire still holds on to those teachings and lives by them even after the death of her mother. It is the common thing that brought her and Lara together in their days