[The way he laughs, it's not happy. It's exasperated and tired and frustrated and angry.]
It wasn't me who accused her.
[But he hadn't done anything to silence Hercules' accusation either. Raleigh knows that the man is fond of Mako, that he knew her father for many years and that he watched her grow. If it came down to it, the man would be loyal to her and not at all to his Queen.
And that really raises the question of who else in the nobility would do the same.]
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It wasn't me who accused her.
[But he hadn't done anything to silence Hercules' accusation either. Raleigh knows that the man is fond of Mako, that he knew her father for many years and that he watched her grow. If it came down to it, the man would be loyal to her and not at all to his Queen.
And that really raises the question of who else in the nobility would do the same.]
The court's dividing already.