'It would make more sense to say we suspected we mated with the rebel, but did not get to speak with him or learn anything about the rebels or his dragon. Which is...fairly true. We saw a single village. We helped people in need because that is the edict of the guard. There is no reason they should feel ill about that, but it will be more believable if we give them something rather than try to sweep all of the events under the rug, so to say. They are smart enough to be suspicious.' Erwan didn't know why he let himself get drawn into this spinning of half-truths, but the more that Hayden pressed, the more he started using the word 'we' instead of 'you'.

Sighing to himself, he really wondered how this might end up. He still held tightly to his faith in the guard though and he also held that they did nothing wrong, or at least, that he knew of. Perhaps in a brief moment when he saw Hayden and Chance sitting unnervingly close. Maybe they? But he pushed the thought out of his head, refusing to suspect someone he'd been in charge of. Only the worst sort of leader would think in that way.