"Um, Your Royal Highness?" Lew murmured, "if we could just have a word—"
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It's Lew's job to protect the Archduke so I get why he's trying to calm the situation. But if this were a friend of mine (and he wouldn't be a friend of mine after this, I assure you), I would just sit back and chalk this beating up to "He deserved it." When people say they have somebody's back no matter what, it usually means they value loyalty over justice. Fuck that. Loyalty is like faith: its worth is only in how people can use it to control other people.
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