"Greetings, Your Highness!"
Maester Garry led dozens of servants and maids in the Hightower in bowing to Danyla and welcoming her back.
The green decorations of House Hightower, which Danyla had never particularly liked, were now gone from the Hightower. They had all been replaced with the black and red of House Targaryen and purple ornaments from Holy Flame Island. Even the maids' formal uniforms were dark, accented with purple and red embroidery.
The man now helping Danyla manage the Hightower was Maester Garry, whom Maester Riven had recommended for his expertise in economics and astronomy. He usually managed and checked all of Oldtown's accounts. After working with him for some time, Danyla had come to trust him a great deal.
Since all the maesters remaining at the Citadel now belonged to Danyla's faction, it had become a much less complicated place. Most of the maesters could focus on their scholarly research.
Those skilled in administration and politics had long since been pressed into service by Danyla and assigned to the various manors and the Stepstones.
With Danyla's financial support, the Citadel had also recruited many young students from among the common people, greatly increasing its number of assistant maesters.
Danyla had always firmly believed that knowledge was power! And she intended to keep that power firmly in her own hands.
The scholars and master artisans of Holy Flame Island had also visited the Citadel many times to exchange ideas with the maesters, allowing many of the ideas and theories Danyla had shared with them to be put into practice rapidly.
It was precisely thanks to the addition of so many maesters skilled in managing territories that Oldtown and Sunhouse Castle had reached their current state. Now, under the plans drawn up by those maesters and the artisans of Holy