"That was a surprise, no question." Trafalgar kept walking as he said it. "I didn't expect Maeron to try something like this. It caught me completely off guard." He turned his hand over. "And Darian didn't fail me by reporting it, which is worth remembering. He could easily have kept the whole thing to himself. Sat on it, told me nothing, played both sides for as long as it suited him, and turned on me at the end of it."
"But he didn't," Rhosyn said. "That counts for a great deal. It isn't a simple gesture, whatever he chose to call it in there." Her eyes moved along the passage ahead. "And Maeron being first heir of House Morgain makes this a strange move from your brother. Not one I'd have predicted."
