Bab 101: Always Be Yer Home

The implication that someone at the capital was already plotting against Tidas and Skye wasn't really new, but it was still sobering. Tidas had been targeted his entire life; for being his father's son, for his works against the slave trade, or simply because he was a royal. His enemies going after his wife was something he'd calculated, but not until they'd reached the capital. The fact that they were able to plant a spy in his guards was evidence of their reach. Limiting the list of suspects to only a few.

Skye looked despairingly at her husband before saying; "Ye think it could be him? Magnus would never do something like this, but He might.."