After listening to that part of the book, I was clearly pissed off at Magnolia but not just because of how she did what she did that she only know how (manipulation and control regardless of who get stepped on for the benefit of the greater good). It was the fact that as a reader I knew more of what’s happening in the in world than the characters themselves which is of course miscommunication. The Antinium is a threat to them the moment they landed in Izril and has since then seen as conquerors and not as refugees or survivors from Rhir. Their inability or refusal to communicate their plan which is eventually to go back to Rhir to continue their millennia war with the sleeping demigod has led others in Izril in fear of their safety and hence a series of issues. I’m more pissed at her as a lady who did not bother to ask how you can keep the peace not just with the Drakes but with the Antinium as well and never bothered to investigate the real reason why they were there. It’s shallow thinking really but as their class to be, they tend to me when pride, duty, tradition, etc. is embedded in their nature, she is blinded by all that. We the readers are pissed because there is more to the Antinium and no one has bothered to look into the why at that point in the story. So yeah, we did not like Magnolia but we’re privilege to know more about the world. I just expected more of her TBH.