Edna, who had been speaking enthusiastically, suddenly fell silent. She hesitated before looking at Gendilari. "Simbul may be insane, but she wouldn't go so far as to provoke you, would she?
Why do you hate her so much?"
"Speaking of which... I rather hope she goes to the Floating Castle and goes on a rampage there for once," Nasr said thoughtfully.
No one would have been surprised that the Night Cloaks had such an idea.
Gendilari spread his hands. "Simbul is obsessively hunting down every Red Wizard who appears outside Thay.
Several times, when the Lord of Dawn was tracking those bone-playing bastards and trying to wipe them out at the root, she not only ruined everything, but even beat him up because he tried to stop her from endangering civilians... Especially those Aster Knights in red cloaks. She really dares to attack them!
"But... she is still stopping evil, after all. We can't kill her over something like this, and we'd feel awkward settling accounts with her afterward... Even if Lathander plays favorites, that still wouldn't be justifiable!
"Still, it's frustrating. The lords of the Tower of Dawn over at the Starfall Sea are actually very unhappy about this. Sometimes, they really want to attack her.
"Things are better here in Waterdeep, but it's not as though none of my subordinates have ever been beaten up. My lord has always hoped to reclaim those former elven Mythal cities.
"That place is a mixed bag, and those penniless Red Wizards often go there to scavenge. Sometimes, Simbul opens a door and goes looking for trouble."
Edna shook her head helplessly. Simbul's power had its limits. She could stop Thay from reaching its hands into her kingdom, but she could not completely destroy that nation.
But Simbul had gone mad after