"Thank God I don't have to appease the Queen as well! Only the Lords and even then, I've some leeway being a Herald. We're all but untouchable." There would be serious hellfire if she found another plot had killed another one of her Heralds. No one would escape her wrath, no matter how well protected they thought they were. She probably isn't supposed to think like that, but she also knows that it's the truth.

"I'm sure the Queen has tried--" she has-- "but there's simply no way to ensure the blue bloods are always as agreeable as the Monarch. Even if there were a way now, eventually they'll have a brat-child with more ambition than sense."