“Ah well. He was vindicated in the end. The rest of us believed your brother, but Bendal … even then he wasn’t convinced—and he found you in the end.” “My brother?” Vin said, scrambling to her feet. “He sold me out?” “Sold you out?” Kar said. “He died promising us that you had starved to death years ago! He screamed it night and day beneath the hands of Ministry torturers. It is particularly difficult to hold out against the pains of an Inquisitor’s torture … something you shall soon discover.”