Geraint gestured with his hands, palms out before him, fingers extended across the table toward the elf. "That’s why the nobles and the money men are in there. They’re protecting each other’s inalienable right to scrag the rest of the world. I mean, what else would be freedom, democracy, and the Anglo-American way? Not to forget the Swiss and Japanese, of course. Actually, they’re rather better at it than we are these days."