"Ah, aristocracy. The Earth Queen thought exactly like that. You would have liked her, maybe - a hard woman...austere, cold - dedicated to power, and the notion that her birth made her worthy of obedience."
The way she said it revealed everything she felt about the idea.
"And I wonder what she thought about it, at the end, when Zaheer - an anarchist of unremarkable birth - choked her to death in her own throne room. Quite the delusion he must have had."
She waves it away.
"In any event, that's not the main error you'll have to face up to on your journey. So tell me. Why did you do the things that you've done?"
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"Ah, aristocracy. The Earth Queen thought exactly like that. You would have liked her, maybe - a hard woman...austere, cold - dedicated to power, and the notion that her birth made her worthy of obedience."
The way she said it revealed everything she felt about the idea.
"And I wonder what she thought about it, at the end, when Zaheer - an anarchist of unremarkable birth - choked her to death in her own throne room. Quite the delusion he must have had."
She waves it away.
"In any event, that's not the main error you'll have to face up to on your journey. So tell me. Why did you do the things that you've done?"