He waved a hand airly. "A job's a job's a job, and if you can convince people to... I don't know, change things up a bit, while you're at it, then it makes up for the fact that you spent two weeks voting to remove a tax only to have it stuck back in by the king."
"Once you lose someone it feels like a part of you's gone forever," Robert said simply. "I'm sorry, I'm distressing you. Well! Let's talk about something else. Do you like flowers?"