"If the Gods were good, it would have been your Uncle who reigned as High King now," Oliver said.
"I trust their decisions," Asabel said. "There will have been a reason for this all. All this suffering, this deceit, and poison. There ought to be some meaning to it. Our Kingdom will suffer now, as it never has before. Do not tell me that you believe it aches in its agony without purpose."
"I believe the farmer would struggle to see the purpose," Oliver said. "The war escapes his attention, until the very moment that it tramples his fields, and sets his crops burning."
