The Professor nodded. "I wonder if it is only because I have heard him say it so often that I believe it… But there is a change in the air. There's a different sort of look in the eyes of the people. Even my Serving Class retainers seem to have a hardness about them, as if they're hungry wolves. It makes me feel as if, around every corner, there lies uncertainty."
"In the Time of Tigers, the strong will rule," Oliver said. "At least, that is what Minister Hod is so fond of saying."
