Quin: …………. *knew this was a shit assignment from the start, just hopes he can keep the rest of his family out of any further involvement or future danger . . . also, he didn’t know that Vashti “never” takes human slaves, it hadn’t really registered that he was the only one – draws a deep breath* Lady Alvierda was warned by an acquaintance that he’d heard you thought you’ve learned of some terrible, damaging secret about her. Whether she has one or not is irrelevant – less influential people have been absolutely ruined on nothing more than speculation. She could hardly come ask you or even send another to do so because, if you are as intelligent as you are observant, you’d have denied it in any respect. But . . . as we are sitting here now, I will ask you out right – do you believe that you have learned something potentially damaging about Lady Vashti Alvierda and, if so, what?