Lady Parthia silently watched Alexander addressing the crowd from the sides with a complicated look, the sound of enormous cheers smashing into her ears to the point it almost hurt.
Excited words like 'food', 'clothes', 'wine', and 'whores', new vocabulary which she had recently picked up entered her sense, telling her the plans people were already starting to make with their new promised bonus.
And although she did not like to admit it, she recognized Alexander's much softer approach was quite a bit better than her own coarse plan of just snatching and dashing from the city.
It left fewer people anatogized and still left the door open for future development- even if Alexander stabbed these people in the back, as long as it was a grievous wound, they would likely forget in a few years.
And this 'modification' to her plan, clearly told the queen that Alexander was no puppet who simply swallowed whatever she fed him.
