"Do you really think the Fischer Family's thousand-year foundation can be ruined just like that? You're underestimating a millennium of heritage."
"Besides, the Fischer Family is one of the most respected families in all of Aethelgard. They won't collapse over something like this. Joy is young; when things go wrong, all she knows how to do is panic. She has no idea how powerful her family truly is."
"Her mother, her maternal grandmother—you think any one of them is a pushover? And that's not even counting the rest of the huge Fischer Family, with relatives in every industry imaginable."
"If there were any holes in the story, they would have found them. How could they be framed for something so big just like that? Even if her second uncle agreed to take the fall, the government wouldn't allow it."
Jane Sterling had a sudden epiphany. Everything he said made perfect sense.
