“I shall marry this king. Be he a monster, a madman, or a brother-killer. I shall go to Easima. I’ll go to prevent further war and sit on war councils. I’ll go to stabilize treaties and to bring a semblance of honor to our world. You and all cock-bearing men will see us recede into ashes.” She looked around the room and then back at him. “I’ve no illusion of anything else and you would be a fool to discard your daughter for a simpleton when it was your words that carved these notions into her thoughts.”
