...let me ask you something, Lightning. How foolish do you think people are for fighting for one set of monarchs or another? I know what you think of the Shuck and how he sees death in this world. But now that you've been here for a while and now that you're starting to really see how things are, what do you think about those people?

[He pauses.] There...might be ways to fight for everyone. But the problem is the fact that there are things on the Seelie side that're destroying us before we can even get our footing. Kinda leaves some of us with little choice.

[Some of us. He'll elaborate shortly.]