"It makes me luckier. Things that have an even chance of going favorably end up working three times out of four, or some such. I was counting on it to protect me from Thorn, but his defenses and Blossom's sorcery had a failure rate low enough that the amount of luck I was using didn't counteract it.

I could theoretically make myself a million times luckier than a normal man. I don't have enough stored for that, but I could make more. And then the Queen should definitely be by a convenient window."