"I wouldn't want to court disaster, baroness, but the people are talking about you... Someone said you're curs

"I wouldn't want to court disaster, baroness, but the people are talking about you... Someone said you're cursed, like it's your fate to call down all the troubles that were supposed to hit the Stolen Lands over the next hundred years. You know how it can be — some people just attract bad things all at once, right? Like the fellow who stumbles over a barrel of fish, steps in a fire, knocks over a wasp nest, and runs blind into a bull field. That's how people are talking about you! Only you're a baroness, so the trouble you get into is more serious..."