Once upon a time, a young lion made a bargain with a fairy queen, and he bargained poorly. The Emperor foresaw the disaster that would befall his son, but he could do nothing about the bargain struck without risking that he would be the one in cold iron, his empire destroyed at the utterance of a single word.

She admits this one is going to be a lot more fun to watch try and wiggle out of his contract than the others were.