"They are few and far between, and even less likely to be permitted to carry out their ambitions. To succeed in doing so, one would have to be very good at hiding their intentions from others..."

But it has happened before. Of this, he is intimately aware.

"May I ask... why are people so desperate for power, where you are from?" She makes it sound as though many would harm another to obtain it. But why? Why do such a thing? He doesn't understand...