"I told your Warden I'd remove it at his discretion, the day you were paired." She didn't intend to hold onto this decision.

"You think I don't know? Music isn't just... the vehicle for my magic, and my spells are never rote recitation. I'm a composer. You can't do anything new with sildroher magic without original music to make it happen. And I sang my first spell as an infant, before I learned to speak." This is the punishment that Ulla herself would most have hated, but then, Ulla has never murdered anyone on the Barge, not in the entire time she was an inmate. "The point was that you murdered three people, and this might not balance the scales, but it mattered."