"I don't know. They can't have been sent by the queen. I am branded outlaw, but my punishment was exile, and i

"I don't know. They can't have been sent by the queen. I am branded outlaw, but my punishment was exile, and it is not custom for elves to contravene their own verdicts. My attackers shouted something about threat and blood. I suppose they are a splinter group of feeble-minded zealots. Or someone on a quest for personal revenge."