Didi froze the royal blood shield around herself and her brother inside the limits they had verified.
True Bearer named both people without declaring either subject while Crowned Frost separated the First Prince's mortal blood authorization from the King's remaining hostage circuits.
This separation reduced the city discharge enough for one fraction of royal power to move while retaliation struck Didi's four Shards.
The shield tried to define isolation as ownership of her brother.
Didi revised the refusal and froze only the blood pathway while naming both mortals as separate people.
That adjustment consumed more mana but prevented rescue language from becoming another claim while she held the tenth pace with blood covering her forearm.
This frozen boundary lasted only through physical contact while it could not free every city ward at once.
"One motion," Didi said toward the throne, "so choose the shell, not the incarnation core."
