Amber

“Nobles like her couldn’t comprehend what it was to go out into the forest because your family needed food. They couldn’t comprehend what it was like to be too poor to afford element resistant garb or better tools to hunt or hire protection because if you could afford all of that you wouldn’t need to go out into the forest in the first place.

No, Natalia didn’t need a taste of the commoner’s life. What she wanted, what she’d always wanted, was the security of wealth. For some reason people who possessed such desires always seemed villainous. Never was such a label applied to those who had wealth and only remembered on occasion that others didn’t have it.”
― Elliot Brooks, Remnants of Dawn