"When has there been more of a time of need than this?" Oliver said. "We can afford no weakness anywhere. Their feud has passed its date of sensibleness. There must be unity. In the time of the First King, the people depended upon House Black greatly. We depend upon it greatly once more."
"A convenient tool, thrown around for the sake of your politics," King Pendragon said. "How does Lord Blackthorn feel to have you tread upon their family dynamics, simply for the convenience of your newly acquired – and rather unsubstantiated rule?"
"He likes it not," Oliver said.
"Interesting," the Pendragon King said mildly. "Your two greatest allies, in Blackthorn and Blackwell, and you intend to insult them both. One as a dead man."
