"Pity then, that you will have to tell him that you were caught with me for days. Or I will. That you learned who I was. What I mean. What I mean to who. Then you can't be trusted, can you? You know then. And you will be useless to him." It's vicious, and this is underhanded. This is a game that he can't win at, not really. He's a pawn between herself and Hastings like a hundred more before him and after him. But when she has only a few days to convince him between here and there, about what was at stake. About why he couldn't do this.
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"That you caught Lakshmi the Dragon Slayer."