“If someone were to ask, who is it that cooks for the wife of Duke Remin of Andelin, hero of the Gresein, and pointed to a wisp like yourself, I’d be the laughingstock of the whole ruddy Empire! My cooking puts meat on bones! Meat! Soldiers march the length of the Empire and chew up armies by teatime because I feed them! I will not be defeated by a picky teenage girl!”
