"But if you're Auradonian," she agrees. 

"Yeah, I'm definitely glad Nat's dad is okay now. It's definitely stupid though. If you're going to follow a legal code at all, you should make sure it doesn't tell you to do stupid stuff."

"For another example of what Sasha said, if you're thinking 'I want revenge' you can go and get revenge, but if you have to think about it as 'villains deserve to hurt' you wind up poisoning random kids instead of whoever you actually want to see hurt." 

Okay, in his defense Nat brought her dad up first. 

Yeah, and in her defense that was clearly what Sasha meant when he talked about Auradonians being bad at aim. 

Jeanine looks back and forth at Nat and Sasha a couple times. "Did somebody poison you? --I'll shut up if you'd rather not talk about it."

Ughhhhh he doesn't like this story but if they're gonna talk about it they might as well talk about it openly.

"Some Auradonian thought it'd be a great idea to try and murder a villain and got a ten year old henchman's kid instead. Or maybe they were just throwing away poison for some other reason and were careless, who knows, didn't make a difference to me." 

"That's awful--even if they didn't think enough to know there'd be kids--that must have really sucked, I'm so glad you're okay." 

Bernard looks like he's feeling guilty about something, but doesn't say anything.

You can both a little less with the sucking up, he doesn't say. 

"Anyway. The point of mentioning it was that Auradonians hate calling their revenge what it is so they call it deserving instead, but deserving is just really bad at doing the thing it's for." 

"It's a good point. And I still don't understand why they had resurrection magic and didn't use it on all the dead people they presumably liked, that's stupid too."

"Bet they used it on some of the people they liked." 

Bernard turns out to be capable of speech! "Don't they all hate magic? They can break their own rules at least some, if they do."