"The world is big," Elspeth says. "If Mama has a flaw at ruler-of-the-world-ing, it's that she's reluctant to delegate. Like, Grandpa Carlisle can approve anything R&D might want to do, but she can overrule him if they appeal because she's a little more flexible and outranks him, so sometimes they appeal. It'd be easier on her if she let him have the last word, and it wouldn't affect that many cases, and if something really important came up people would find a way to go around him and ask her on a case by case basis anyway, but." She shrugs.