Mereavus sighed some and shrugged her shoulders, arms folding underneath her bodice. "His<em>Majesty</em>," she corrected offhand. "In all honesty, Captain, I'm not sure of the point of placing blame. It accomplishes next to nothing for the moment - you should be resting to continue the search as soon as possible. You can be berated later, once you've found her."<br/><br/>She never did see the point in it all. Ruling by emotion was weak. It led to foolish decisions, like summoning a court up to shout at them, rather than ensuring the best possible solution to the problem.<br/><br/>She always was too critical of emotion - politician first and woman second, while the rest of the population tended to remember that they were, in fact, human, rather more often.<br/><br/>She hadn't got here by being human. Where in damnation was<em>he</em>? He had to be somewhere.