Than is tired.
This universe has been unpleasant from the start. No magic or anything like it, few people believe she's truly Cutting rather than faking it. And yet, it's still ruled by aristocrats and grinding its commoners down from cradle to grave. She tried conquest for a decade or two, but she never managed to get anyone to feel the spirit of revolution, no one really understood why she tried to set them up as a republic.
There isn't anyone who could take her place as ruler, and she is so, so tired. She Cut space to flee her republic, and is on the other end of the continent, drinking terrible rotgut in a bar just expensive enough that no one will pick a fight with her. Drinking has never really stilled her mind since she was thirty-something, but she gives it a damn good try; the bartender is too intimidated to cut her off.
She intended to go back to the fortress where her republic's government is led. But when she Cuts space, she realizes that wasn't what she Wanted, and the Blade of Want takes her somewhere much farther.
...Hell, maybe it was about time anyway. Now, what world will she find next?
