"Your husband took a lot from us, but he gave us much more, Kamila." Syrah said. "I wouldn't be here drinking tea and eating sweets if it weren't for him. I'd be sitting in a room, worrying whether starvation or the undead would kill my people first."
"You are stronger than I am, Syrah." Kamila replied. "In your shoes, I don't think I could forgive Lith so easily."
"In my shoes, you would have done the same." The Hati Queen shook her head. "After everything I've gone through, after the horrors I have perpetrated on the weakest of my own kin, I've learned how grey Mogar is.
"Without Lith, my son would have been forced to become an adult in days and take the burden that belonged to his father. It's thanks to Lith that Xagra is still a child who can laugh and play.
