Yes, Prince Leal had thus far been passing himself off as a lordling of little importance, but that only made him more… killable. If the wind should happen to blow the wrong way while they're in enemy territory, without the prince's true status as protection, the chances of them getting out alive were low.
Then again, that protection was dubious. If a commoner and not a noble happened to learn of his real identity, they might simply kill the enemy prince all the more happily. Come to think of it, a noble who ought to know better might also do the same.
Intelligent men all, it was not lost on the long-suffering lords that it fell on them—not on the negligible dozen of soldiers they had as escorts—to keep their future king alive by not inspiring murder in the hearts of every Arnican they m
