Heroine of Zenina

Princess Marina intends to compete in the Zeninan Games. Queen Kerina fears her own death approaches and dreads what will happen to Zenina if her daughter Plavina, Marina's elder sister reigns as she believes Plavina is too weak and lazy to make a good Queen. She offers the throne to Marina who declines it. Meanwhile, Colonel Bromarsh is examining Zenina's files to reveal who framed him, what he finds implies the reasons for his court martial are far more sinister than even he thought. Marina indirectly pushes her slave Charles into staging a peaceful demonstration of slaves in Mermaid square before the sitting of the Imperial Council. Plots abound and co-ruler, the merman Crown Prince Neman, publicly crowns Marina with his own crown. At the culmination of the Games, Marina is declared heroine of the Games for having won the most florettes, and the mayhem begins.