It was upon Lady Inayah and the Queen Mother revealing the true state of the court that Alexander began to feel a bit rueful over his negligence.
Before he had simply seen this place as not being of his concern, feeling far more occupied with much more important matters pertaining to his own land, such as subjugating both the native Zanzan and conquered Tibian nobles and building an economy robust enough to afford buying them off.
However now he felt he should have at least dipped his toes into this place also, at least then he would have been kept in the loop about the general picture.
He felt blind as a bat, hence the lampooning remark. An urgency to shake hands with Lady Inayah and build a spy network here felt lit in him like never before.
However as Alexander thought this, he also quickly spotted a loophole in the two ladies' comment, that he could not help but point out,
