Oh, she said. You can rest assured that I will kill him. Mostly this is to emphasize what I said before: no more time to lounge around and decide with no consequences. For every moment you waste deliberating today, the Oak King will be in the hands of my torturers, experiencing the most excruciating pain. Your delay extends that agony. Oh, irony, murmured Dorian.
Shadow Heir (Dark Swan 4) (ed. Random House, 2012) - ISBN: 9781446465691