Making people detest me is my best skill, just above squandering my gifts and lying.

[Once again, the smugness in his voice is a complicated affair. Perhaps the perceptive man can detect a hint of irony within. But his next sentence is hard and uncompromising. Can't you put aside whatever family quarrel you have and let your uncle help you, Damen had said in Arles, and honestly they are cut from the same cloth. He’s truly a good man. You are misguided, give him a chance. Laurent’s heard it all.]

I don't care how you think Gladiolus is amazing and beyond fault. If he touches me again the consequences will be the same.