“Have you even been remotely been paying attention to your neighbours for the past, I don’t know, year?” Handy snapped at her, not for the first time. “Were you so utterly unaware of King Gerhart’s deteriorating condition on his sick bed? Were you blind to the visible corruption and decadence of Geoffrey’s reign? Are you so wilfully ignorant to know my powers as Sword of the King under Gethrenian law and tradition but know nothing of the Right of Retrieval and the Gryphonic tradition of challenging claims of succession? That it was pressed to push Johan off of his claim to the throne in the first place?”