The Need for War - Part 4

"It has. And still I do not have the sense that I ought to be anywhere else. I am exactly where I should be," Queen Asabel said. "All this is to say that Lord Blackwell might be full of emotion, and rightly, but that does not mean his opinion carries any less weight. Perhaps it is we who are blind, without the hand of the Gods to guide our hearts as they have his? Nevertheless – I wish to see justice carried out."

"You say it confidently enough that I could almost delight in the fact that my mission has been achieved already," Oliver said, feeling somewhat guilty now, for he wasn't entirely sure that Queen Asabel had grasped the full extent of what he was asking her, even though she seemed to be on the very edge of whispering her support.