They're not good people. I told him that. But...I didn't go there looking to get in a fight with anyone. I just...lost my temper.

[Once the moment passed, he wasn't going to stalk the castle grounds sweeping up any Westergaards he missed. Who does that? And though he hadn't thought much of it at the time, in retrospect he's glad he didn't cause some kind of horrible succession crisis for the whole country. That sort of thing starts civil wars!]

I...turned them into sea monsters? The little crawly kind that lives on the ocean floor, not the kind that can sink ships. [He's not an idiot.]