The captives had been ill questioned several times before Rafaela woke up. Illegally, illicitly, and illogically in her judgement, until she found out how much had been revealed. Then she added both illuminatingly and ill-advisedly to her list of ills.
The cold reality was that even information acquired in such a fashion couldn't, and shouldn't, be discarded. Kings and corporations used everything available to them, and worked hard to gather even more. She just wished that Brendan and her own Security team hadn't potentially compounded the injury the Dragon had done to them.
"It isn't a corporation, they actually call themselves an anti-corporate political group!" Brendan informed her triumphantly.
Rafaela forced herself to focus on the results instead of the methods, and asked, "Like the Free-Capitalists?"
"Actually, these members of the Regency are claiming to be Royalists, in favor of a true monarchy," Lief informed her dryly.