“But I would ask you to remember, Tao, as one woman with power to another—the greater good must always come before the personal.” “No,” said Tao. Here, at last, was something she was sure of—something that she had learned in her journeys, that perhaps the High Mage had not. “You’re wrong. There’s no such thing as greater good—there’s just good, and the more of it we can do, the better.”