"Please, please let me go," Nessa pleaded.
"When she sent you here, didn't she warn you that death might greet you? You have been serving her long enough to know that she doesn't care whether you die or not," Tyrion said, his grip yet to loosen.
Year after year, Tyrion watched many of Tabitha's servants leave the palace or heard of some dying. They were all disposable to her, yet they thought they were better than the person before them.
"It puzzles me why you would choose to follow my grandmother when the servants who served my mother well are either still in the palace or she helped them to settle down outside the palace," Tyrion said, yet to understand servants like Nessa.
Hazel was far from a horrible queen. She had not ruined the Castros but rather made it safer for her family. Together with the Hensons, she didn't tolerate any threats toward her family.