"I honestly don't know. Hard to have a plan when we're on as shaky ground as you are. We will do our best for you and to help you, but honestly, I don't know what we can do," she admitted. "We hold no ill will to you, I can promise you that. And we will do our best to aid you."

"Within limits" nearly every male growled some variant of that.

Cassidy sighed. "Within reasonable limits where reasonable limits are set by the Queen and her Healer."

So many pairs of eyes glaring at Cassidy at that. And at least one person muttering questions about Cassidy's idea of reasonable...