“Besides, perhaps you’re more useful here. There might be important guarding work that needs doing. Peasants that need slaughtering. Women that need beating. Royal rings that need kissing. That sort of thing.” Women that need beating. He cast just the quickest glance my way at that, tossing me a leather pack. I caught it. It took me a moment to realize that line had been referring to me. The entire string of insults, in fact, had been delivered so smoothly that it took a few seconds for them to sink in.
