"Justice is to be had, no doubt," Oliver said. "But you as individuals, you ought protect yourselves, and that which is dear to you, before it is snatched from your hands. There stands a monarch you can trust with that which you care about. Whatever you might think of her, you can be certain that Queen Asabel shall not steal your land, or your family."
It wasn't much, but there was something to be had there. It was not the passionate inspiration that he had sought to bring out of them before. It was a different, far more malicious emotion, of the sought that Ingolsol could toy with, and there was only the barest drop of it.
