Editing Diners of Amber (section)

==<span style=color:LimeGreen>'''King Random's Last Word'''==

<span style=color:DarkGreen>'''''Let us get this straight, at the first. Amber officially embraces a Free Press and Free Speech. To do otherwise would harm the peace of shadow from Kolvir to Chaos.'''

<span style=color:DarkGreen>'''''Of course, a king may do many things. I could easily have Bleys whacked for lese majesty.'''

<span style=color:DarkGreen>'''''But I won't. Maybe we need to speak our mind every so often. Just for the novelty of it. Julian said as much once after we retrieved Brand from imprisonment. Point taken.'''

<span style=color:DarkGreen>'''''In one of my favorite shadows a man named Cicero wrote:'''

<blockquote> ''"For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, 
''so this subtle manner of speech,
 
''though lacking in artificial graces, 
''delights us.</blockquote>

<span style=color:DarkGreen>'''''Besides, Brother, I was there too. It is a terrible burden for us all to have been so thrown together and so pitted against each other by a domineering father. I know now that he set us all up. He had things in mind for all of us. I think he wanted Eric, Corwin and you to fight for the throne, to inspire loyalty in the rest of us, driving us to fight, to weed out the weak, and in the end, to leave the throne to the most powerful cabal, deeming it most fit to rule.'''

<span style=color:DarkGreen>'''''When all was said and done it was Corwin who won, with no cabal to aid him. Yet all Oberon's plans fled before Corwin's selflessness. Another round of fratricide on the edge of the abyss would have served no one. So the Unicorn ended the conflict. Forgive me, brother, for taking the throne. I now know better than every creature in reality and shadow save a rare few, that the throne of a primal realm is no picnic.'''

<span style=color:DarkGreen>'''''Grant me grace, brother, as I grant you leave to be bitter.'''

<span style=color:DarkGreen><big>'''''Random I'''

<big><span style=color:DarkGreen>'''''King of Amber'''

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