A Question

[yao590.livejournal.com]

Here is another question I have in KoA. It's after the assassination, in the king's room:

"If he'd been stoic and denied the pain, the entire palace would have been in a panic already, and Eddisian soldiers on the move."

l read the sentence  again and again, but I can't understand why if Gen deny the pain, then the palace would panic? I think that if the king was calm, the palace wouldn't panic.

And then "He'd mean to deceive them, and he'd succeeded."  Deceive them what? I totally can't understand these, so I am all confused about following things as well. May someone explain it for me? But just those two sentences. I'd like to try to figure out the following by myself. Thanks!! 

Comments

[dannybailey.livejournal.com]

I completely agree with all the very smart people who have added their interpretations, and I just thought I'd supplement with a quote from QofA (which I'm once again in the middle of).

Eddis is thinking about Eugenides:
"She never worried about his complaints. She worried only when he was quiet. Either he was plotting something so outrageous it would bring her entire court to her throne howling for his blood, or he'd been fighting with his father, or on very rare occasions it meant he's been seriously hurt."

Attolia, who would also know Eugenides well by now, would have probably come to the same conclusion (she saw how silent he was when she cut off his hand). Eugenides, who didn't want her to worry, made it seem as though he was not seriously hurt.