[She looks up at him quietly while he speaks and then away, frowning softly towards the distant, golden-hazed horizon of this pocket realm.]

I can.

[Then she shakes her head. Of course it would be too much to expect that every individual who made it to one of the seats would be one who would rule with a fair and just hand, but still...]

Not all those who fought in the Archon Wars were kind beneath their ferocity, and nor were all of them wise.