If the whole palace is his, then everything in it is something he created.

[She's not disagreeing with their assessment, but she does think there's a hole in the logic.]

We may be able to use this, but won't he? We care more when people we know die, don't we?

[...Don't we? The way she asks is a little distant, though, like there's something to the attachment she can't quite wrap her brain around.]