yarrr, ye scurvy boy-king, halt ye whinin'

"You said I should do something." Eugenides smiled in the dark, twisting the knife of his revenge a little deeper into the magus.

"I did?"

"As you were leaving, after your extremely edifying visit in the spring. You said, 'You could still do something.' Your exact words."

"I meant talk your queen into surrendering, not destroy our navy in its own harbour!" the magus shouted.

from The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner