The perfect resolution of the issue regarding the ownership of Count Cico's Earldom and the Winged Cavalry had put Murphy in a good mood, and Ellen's unexpected joining of the Blood Vulture Clan had found solutions to the concerns in his heart.
Although it was somewhat immoral, Murphy felt at this moment that he perhaps should thank that damned Dwarf Loren for the misconduct during the war in Westerly Territory; if they hadn't done such terrible things and made the situation in Westerly Territory as bad as it now was, Little Sheron and her knights wouldn't have so obediently submitted to the new order.
Wow, such thoughts were really too venomous, even by a vampire's twisted morals!