"I now know what I want from this world. What I'll do after my vengeance is complete."
Her eyes stayed on Quinlan's face while she condemned everything beyond him.
"Every man who puts a price on a child."
The light climbed her back as she spoke, and a second voice had come up under hers, far down, level, bottomless. Nobody along those walls dared look at the man holding her.
"Every hand that carries the box. Every lord who signs the deed. Every clerk who leaves a dead boy's name out of the book. I am coming for every single one of them. Anywhere they run, however long it takes, I'll find them. One by one, I will cleanse this rotten world of its filth."
The smoke in the rafters had begun to turn, slowly, all of it, one great wheel above their heads.
"I'll not stop until no child has to wait for help that never comes. That is what I want to do."
