Juliana shook her head; a definitive answer, and one she didn't need to spend any time considering. She'd already thought through each of the candidate's chances, from her perspective. The only thing keeping her sane at the moment was that Piccardy didn't seem especially likely to win, but even a slim chance was more of a chance that she was willing to permit. She wouldn't stop meddling in the campaigns, through whatever vehicle was available to her, until she was satisfied that he had been quite thoroughly destroyed. With any luck she could do enough lasting damage that he wouldn't be able to run for Minister the next time around, either.

But Jude Wright had no real chance, either, as far as she was concerned. There were plenty of people who supported his ideas, but a good many of them didn't have the vote — and the ones who did support his ideas and could vote were often repulsed by the realities of those policies. It was all well and good for a toff whose world did not expand beyond the borders of Wellingtonshire to say he supported the rights of half-humans to access education, but if he ever came face to face with a vampire or half-goblin he would have recoiled. Some of them might vote for Wright, because of the theoretical; any of them that had attended his campaign events would probably find reasons to pick a slightly more moderate candidate instead.

"I hope he knows what he's doing, running," she said with a frown. "It might do more harm than good, at the end of the day. For his causes."

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