In any event, our relations with Dorthillion have become poor since the ways have wildened.

Riddle me this.

In the time I spend at Rhodes I will encounter many brilliant minds and come to understand principles, strategies and tactics, caucusing, shlentering, back-stabbing, manipulation, campaigning, alliances – and I will also witness the depths of human determination and depravity, and the utter Shakespearean nature of it all.

The fugg in my mind was starting to clear a little and I began to get a little more aware of what was going on.