I am only a man who strives to be just and to do right, as right seems to me, and if I dream, it is of good, not evil, as I understand good and evil.

You are sure that this dreaming of mine will lead me to worldly loss and shame.

Even of that _I_ am not sure.

The thought comes to me that it may lead me to those very baubles on which you set your heart, but by a path strewn with spices and with flowers, not by one paved with the bones of men and reeking with their gore.
Crowns that are bought with the promise of blood and held with cruelty are apt to be lost in blood, Userti." She waved her hand.

"I pray you keep the rest, Seti, till I have more time to listen.