So our love could never last." "Why not?" "It's who we are. You will always fight for the throne which isn't destined to be yours and I will back my ladies to the bitter end. And once they sit upon their throne and claim their crowns, I shall be their most devoted of subjects. Even if they agree to allow you to sit on the Celestial Council beneath them in the ways of old, you will never forget that you want what they own and that I was on the other side of that war."