“I’m not avoiding it. I’m just trying to come up with an answer that doesn’t incriminate others. Leck stole,” he said, startling her with the randomness of it. “Anything he wanted—knives, clothing, horses, paper—he took. He stole people’s children. He destroyed people’s property. He also hired people to build the bridges and never paid them. He hired artists to decorate his castle—never paid them either.”
