curse directly affects not the person who touches her (he didn't drop dead at her feet) but her loyal subjects who (as it seems) have no choice but to carry out her sentence... right? The fear she has is that if they didn't pick someone and execute them, the next person she did touch - one of her retinue, for example - might drop dead.

Definitely a heat of the moment thing :D

Do the blessings have power? We'll have to see. I'm along on the ride too :D

edited for html fail.