“Look, it probably wouldn’t have made a difference if we knew about your alliance. I mean, we could have strategized around it, sure. Changed our plan. And we probably would have used Alastair effectively, if we’d known. Maybe stopped him from taking every advantage we have, claiming our home as his, and making it so that everyone from here to Alabama is going to live with Sinners’ boots on their neck. Maybe we wouldn’t have to worry about slowly getting bled dry by tithes we can’t pay to people who don’t even deserve the dirt off my shoe. But there’s no use speculating now.
