"Your question is underspecified," says Thorn. "Probably whatever you had in mind my reaction would involve mocking you for how terrible you are with words."

"And a good thing, too, why do you want to listen to that? I can guess what he'd do if our run on the Queenscourt had failed and he'd just collected us after the attempt, for example," says Promise. "You'd probably die slowly, you wouldn't be worth the risk after surviving and escaping a go at the Queen."