"Yes, you'd think the point of sovereignty would be to stop all that," Claudius says drolly. "I can always justify sovereignty in my head, you see, when I think it can be used to feed the hungry, heal the sick, protect the innocent. But if innocents continue to suffer under a sovereign's reign, then what's the use of it?" There's a flicker of a memory -- some heartsick horror he felt when was on laudanum. With Sagramore, wasn't it? Sagramore said something about King Arthur ... Claudius sighs. "Or when the sovereign himself creates more suffering."