Remei is not particularly quick or creative. What she is is ambitious - sort of. It turns out to be ambitious you need to know what ambition you're after rather than just vaguely wistful about the entire ill-defined category of Grand Accomplishments.

Fortunately, Remei does have literacy, a pretty face, and a conveniently ambivalent relationship with the populace of her late father's county. He got bastards on half his maids, most of whom aborted or smothered them, but he didn't actually require this as a condition of employment, and Remei's mother kept her. If she had reasons she has never discussed them and in fact routinely remarked, during Remei's childhood, that she could have chosen otherwise, but Remei lived. Bastardry kept her out of the line of fire when the Four-Day War turned everything upside down, and now there's a little bit of a power vacuum and nobody too eager to step into it. None of the voters would be terribly sorry if she went to the convention and never returned, nor are many of them concerned that, should actual power materialize in her hands, she'll have anything against them in particular. She collects the number of votes she needs to go to the city and be a delegate.

Is this an ambition? Maybe sort of. But there's nothing she wants to accomplish with her vote. She wants to attach to someone who has Grand Accomplishments planned and piggyback on them. And now she knows where they'll all be!