Year of the Boar, Twelfth Month, Day 14.

 I am exhausted with the effort of playing the perfect host to Rani. The more time I spend in her presence, the more I dislike her; there is an arrogance about her masquerading as self-assurance... she says exactly the right thing at the right time as if she is reciting a well-rehearsed script... everything she says or does is calculated... a perfectly timed comment to show she is paying attention... What it tells me... is that she is extremely well-versed in the ways of my House... that she has been carefully primed about my interests ... and I want to know why. If Sasanuma fails to get answers from Rikku today, I may well be tempted to go against what I believe and take a turn at interrogating Rikku myself... I am becoming more and more convinced that Rani has brought danger to the Kingdom. What I do not know... is how none of the Houses she has visited thus far have noted anything out of the ordinary or whether she acts on behalf of her Kingdom or in her own interests...