[The Bloody Bay Fleet]

The momen the wig came off, there was a cold feeling that stabbed into the stomach of the lord Captain. That's... that's the queen. The sinking, burning, damned queen that I talked to down there. She tried to keep the fear from her face, but her eyes were still much wider than they had been before. Kelsey Tattone, Lord-Captain of The Bloody Bay Fleet, had just threatened to kill the Queen of the entire Warren, and threatened to haver slain by a mob of Fleetmen, no less.

Kelsey gulped, remembering the three Lord-Captains that had been given to the queen and then executed by the Bosun. If she were to be imprisoned, she did not know who she feared more, the Queen, or the wrath of the Bosun who was nominally bound by the laws of the Queensland-even though she knew he did not care to follow them if they inconvenienced him. "My-my queen," she says, "of course I recognize you, how could I not?" She made a sheepish curtsy in her gambeson, before cautiously taking her hand and giving it a timid shake. "It is I who must apologize to you! You must understand that I had no idea who you were, and well...being who we are, cautiousness and crassness go hand in hand. I am ever so sorry to threaten you, I would never have done that had I known who you were."