He ventured into the security station to fill in his staff on what he’d learned, and Banichi was there, looking like death. “You, nadi,” he said to B… - C. J. Cherryh

Murder has been done for far lesser things than thrones. Most dangerous when the possessors of thrones forget how they came by them.

He watched the desert slip under the airship's nose, and the land roughened into highlands over which he had traveled at great cost, in great pain - dreamlike, such speed, looking down on a world where time moved more slowly, where realities were different and immediate and he had learned for a time to live.

"Poisoning us," Bren said, faced with what was a truly attractive service, and with the servants still in the room, "is a process of inconveniently many steps, though conservative of the furniture. One believes we may just have breakfast this morning, nadiin-ji."