So much information to process. It was overwhelming. I’d known Guin was evil for a long time, although I had not suspected her depravity had gone so far as to keep her own blood mage as a pet. If Mordred was still alive, killing Guin might be harder than I had planned. Knight was visibly shaken. We both knew the story behind his torture would not be pleasant, but it had affected him far more fundamentally than we had anticipated. Similarly, I was surprised to feel my own measure of guilt. The woman I had been hunting had been the source of his pain. Had I stopped her long ago when I’d first tried to kill her, perhaps his trauma could have been prevented. There was nothing I could say that would fix what had been done or ease the pain of his discovery. Opting to give him time to process, I
