‘Do you even fully realise what happened?’ I managed – a desperate effort to explain myself, to myself as much as to him. ‘The walls should have stopped her – should have stopped all of them. The only reason I can think of that they didn’t—’ ‘Is that the laws of the city weren’t a formality but rather codified instructions from the gods themselves?’ Creon finished, still so unfathomably unmoved. He hadn’t even pulled his hands from his pockets. ‘Yes. I figured. She must have known the true meaning of that law, for her army to be here so swiftly.’
