I think he was delighted to see you safe," said the magus, "and grieved that the next time you meet, it must be as king and king and not as friends. - Megan Whalen Turner

"Who knows but that you will get up to find that the world has inverted itself yet again?" He looked around the room at the other attendants as if in warning, but spoke to Philologos. "Remember, the love of kings and queens is beyond the compass of us lesser mortals."
If anyone noticed, no one commented that he had called the Thief of Eddis a king.

I wouldn't destroy an entire house to destroy one man. But I would destroy a man to destroy a house.

Eddis looked at her minister, curious. "Your head?" she asked.
Attolia explained. "He had to be forcibly dissuaded from strangling his son."
"So have we all from time to time," Eddis said seriously.