“Anyway, this morning, another man was murdered. This was a man called Erendor of House Kayati, who was well-liked and well-respected. When I heard of it, his brothers had been going through his business files and found letters of threats from a source known to be aligned with Prince Denori. This is a family who knows what I am and who I work for, and the poor man’s wife and his secretary revealed a host of similar threats that were made right here under our noses to citizens of the City of Glass by Aranians. First, for switching their support from Prince Nayek to Prince Denori when it was thought that Nayek was dead—”
“Wait—thought he was dead? He isn’t dead?”
“No, you didn’t know this?”
Zaina spread her hands. “What do you mean—didn’t know this? I killed the bastard. He was dead.”
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