"Everyone says that, but I've had time to read a lot of histories. The victors may write it, but the historians then challenge it. Argue over it. Falsity does not stand long, in posterity."

Which, by itself, was a point worth making.

"The person I was, certainly. The one with a thirst for power, control. No, a need for it - whatever the justification. Because nothing else has ever been in the control of your own hands, not from a troubled childhood up until the moment power became a possibility."

She paused.

"How am I doing so far?"