“Get your head out of your SWOT analyses and spreadsheets and into real life, Tess. There’s a very real game of thrones that’s fought in every single city in the world, and I’m a player in it, just as you are. For every white knight, there’s a black one. Where there’s good, there’s evil lurking right beneath the surface. That’s the checks and balances of humanity. That’s how the world works. I’m a facilitator of the Underworld, not its creator. That darkness exists whether I’m involved in it or not, I just happen to master it.”
