But when she lay in bed, she couldn’t get to sleep. Thoughts churned inside her head.
Enzo’s comments on what she wanted, and his and Jintho’s suggestion that she might want to stand for the council really got her thinking. It was all very well to keep saying that she wasn’t interested in politics, because that was what the men wanted her to say. But the council was where the decisions were made, and if she was interested in those decisions, then she supposed she was interested in politics.
The book of Foundation Law told her that any Mirani of adult age regardless of family status could stand for the public section of the council, which made up a third of the general assembly. Membership of the public section was determined by vote. Voting wasn’t compulsory, and most Endri didn’t bother
