*Belasarius*

All my life, I had found Advisor Windsor Price to be the dullest man who had ever lived. His every action, word and thought were done with such carefully selected blandness that could inspire paint to dry faster.

“Carefully selected”, it turned out, were the keywords there.

“My son joined the castle staff for the same reason, I imagine, most do,” said Cornelius. “Well, most people that are NOT members of a human supremacist cult, at any rate. ...