"Oh Scorpia," Akane says softly--and this, all of it, surprises her. She'd known Scorpia had been part of the Horde of course and that she was also, somehow, a princess... but everything else is new.

"I think you'd be good at it," she volunteers after thinking about it. "I mean, you're good at taking care of your pokemon. So I bet you'd take good care of your people." She frowns a little, biting her lower lip. "I don't suppose they'd let you abdicate if you really didn't think you could do it."