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“What makes you think I am afraid?”

Visual clues—the way she had kept her arms in front of her breasts, for instance, but he did not explain.
Blades had professional secrets too. “You know a lot more than you have told me. I still think you were
as-signed to accompany me because no senior snoop would accept such a hopeless mission.You are
worried because you know we are both dis-pensable and are heading into danger.”

“A wild hypothesis! You will be in far greater danger than I, Sir Wolf.”

“Why so?”

“Visiting Ironhall.” If she curled her pretty lip, it was hidden by her wrappings. “The Blades have a
reputation for avenging their own, and no one has ever slain more Blades than you have. I am astonished
that you have survived so long.”

Hogwood ought to know that he had visited Ironhall a dozen times in the last year, because he was first
choice whenever Vicious needed

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something done out of town—anything to keep him out of the King’s

sight. Her briefing had been deliberately falsified.

“How many Blades am I alleged to have murdered?”

“At least three, possibly five.”

The correct answer was eight, which she should know because the Guard certainly did. “And how many
other men?”

“Inquisitor Schlutter for one.”

Ah! Schlutter’s unpleasant end was the inquisitors’ main grudge against Wolf. He wondered whether
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they had told the girl anything close to the truth; also whether she had been assigned to him as an agent of
vengeance. His Majesty’s Office of General Inquiry had a very long memory.

“Inquisitor Schlutter committed suicide.”