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Anita is certainly not any competition for a spymaster, yet, Eli, dear. I've been deconstructing you and your father for years, and after that, a nervous girl is hardly challenging quarry. Her trail was embarrasingly obvious for anyone who knew how to follow it.
I don't know why a young squire-knight sworn to her father would need such a sum of money, but I don't particularly care, either. What matters is that I know that he all but took money from the family he's sworn to protect, and that makes him useful.
You do have wise bannermen, Eliza. Lord Niall agreed readily when I suggested with the utmost innocence that a few of his contingent be sent with his daughter, for protection, and to make a statement. She's piqued my interest, after all, and that makes her no longer a liability to be sent off to Allba and then ignored. Now, she needed to be cultivated and guarded, in the chance that I should choose to make her Lady of the West. Despite his ... eccentricities, Lord Niall sees that clearly enough. Very wise.
Of course, he didn't question when I suggested Sir Harold in particular. Wise, perhaps, but not clever.
That's simply life for you and I, isn't it, Eliza? More cunning than anyone else. It's almost boring, sometimes, how easy they all are to use.
Anita is certainly not any competition for a spymaster, yet, Eli, dear. I've been deconstructing you and your father for years, and after that, a nervous girl is hardly challenging quarry. Her trail was embarrasingly obvious for anyone who knew how to follow it.
I don't know why a young squire-knight sworn to her father would need such a sum of money, but I don't particularly care, either. What matters is that I know that he all but took money from the family he's sworn to protect, and that makes him useful.
You do have wise bannermen, Eliza. Lord Niall agreed readily when I suggested with the utmost innocence that a few of his contingent be sent with his daughter, for protection, and to make a statement. She's piqued my interest, after all, and that makes her no longer a liability to be sent off to Allba and then ignored. Now, she needed to be cultivated and guarded, in the chance that I should choose to make her Lady of the West. Despite his ... eccentricities, Lord Niall sees that clearly enough. Very wise.
Of course, he didn't question when I suggested Sir Harold in particular. Wise, perhaps, but not clever.
That's simply life for you and I, isn't it, Eliza? More cunning than anyone else. It's almost boring, sometimes, how easy they all are to use.