"Like the flower?" Hector's actually stopped in the middle of being offended to try to puzzle that out. "And don't you know? He's got some pretty girl campaigning to get him out. You know what'd happen if we used the drugs on Yvette, don't you, Damian?"

Damian blinks rapidly. "She's not breaking the law, Hec - Officer Gantelet. There'd be scandal if you needlessly set off her heart condition."

"If you," Hector says. "Since it'd be on your head that you put her there, all for the sake of your little treasonous overthrow."