Lucien Enjolras

“Mine was a genuine question, too,” Claudius says with a tilt of his head, surprised but not displeased by how incisive Laertes is. “But I’ll try to follow yours to an end, and not introduce too many of my own. Do you mean what changed the first time a certain emperor attempted to establish power through intimidation and torture, then stopped? I’m afraid he didn’t enlighten me, so we’ll have to speculate.”