While Ragnar and Gyda were preparing for the absolute certainty of a corporate civil war in the Midlands, the Abbasid Princess had an important prospect visit her.
At the moment, Zaynab was entertaining herself in the geometric courtyard with her pet caracal, Al-Jabr, utterly unaware that her arranged merger was about to finalize.
Since Zaynab was five, she raised the desert lynx as her pet, and it was quite honestly her only sounding board for complex equations.
She was the only daughter of the current Caliph, and to say her relationship with her mathematically illiterate brothers was strained could be considered an understatement.
Since a young age, she had been heavily sheltered by her father's administration, to the point where she had never even audited the markets outside the palace walls.
