Know, good my sir, that I command the defense and none other—let alone foreign interlopers, if you would convince me that His Majesty has in sooth issued this silly command, you must bring me a written order in his own hand, or else persuade him to issue his dicta to me in person.
Would you rather let the enemy in than yield on a bit of protocol? said Jorian angrily! She tried to think of Gawyn — he would be in Tar Valon with his sister, full of his pride for her, so earnest in his desire to be her shield when she needed one — and of Galad — why would they not let her see him?