"He may be cruel, but he's devious. I think he wanted to test my loyalty and eliminate rivals at the same time

"He may be cruel, but he's devious. I think he wanted to test my loyalty and eliminate rivals at the same time, so he recruited me as a spy. It seemed natural, what with my husband in the guards. I couldn't just refuse — that would make me look like a threat to the state. The king is already putting the squeeze on the city guard hard enough, so that would threaten my Talwyn too. Now I've concocted a story to get you to attack someone on the pretense of piracy, knowing that it wasn't true." Eimar withers with shame.