"“People trust what they already know. Having a new high consul would be difficult under any circumstances, but it would be less difficult if there were a story with it. A succession. I want to train you to be that, if—God forbid—something happened to me.” “But why should I be good at it just because you were?” Teresa said. “There’s no reason to think that. That’s dumb.” “It is,” her father said. “But it’s a mistake people have made all through history.”"