Plotting By Candlelight - Part 4

"Why get involved with me, though?" Oliver mused. The words sounded almost bitter when he said them. He simply couldn't understand why he'd been spared a helping hand, despite having not really spoken to the Minister of Logic before.

"I think he was honest in his reasons when declared them," Verdant said. "It would sound like a lie coming from any other man, but given the eccentricness of the Minister, I'm more than inclined to believe him. He simply wants to raise up the strong, because he believes it to be necessary."

"Princess Asabel too," Lady Blackthorn pointed out. "Wasn't that… strange?" She asked, stealing another glance at Oliver. She hadn't been privy to Oliver's meeting with Asabel a week before, nor – like everyone else – his encounter with her when his sickness was at its worst. If even Oliver found it odd that she had come to his aid so strongly, no doubt an outside observer would have been thoroughly baffled.