"Forgive me, Your Highness, but this is defamation. My students and I owe everything we have to King Irovetti.

"Forgive me, Your Highness, but this is defamation. My students and I owe everything we have to King Irovetti. If not for him, the Academy of Grand Arts wouldn't even exist. It would be base ingratitude on my part to engage in any conspiracy against our patron. You must have me confused with Annamede Belavarah — she's certainly always ready to bite the hand that feeds... or caresses."