...Do you say no to your Queen?”
“We don’t have a Queen where I live.”
“Then I’m sorry for you. Queens are very splendid, even when they call themselves Marquesses and chain up poor Wyverns. Well, very splendid and very frightening. But splendid things are often frightening. Sometimes it’s the fright that makes them splendid at all. What kind of place did you come from, with no Queens and bad fathers and Anna-Marees?”