And it was one thing to catch a grubby thief and make a show of her as the cause of great evils in Tevanne—but it was quite another to expose massive misconduct, conspiracy, and death being perpetrated by a merchant house faction right here in the city. The merchant houses did conduct espionage and sabotage against one another, everyone knew that—but there was a bright, unspoken line they did not cross. They did not make war upon one another. War in Tevanne would be disastrous, everyone knew that. But a bunch of flying assassins, Gregor thought, certainly looks a lot like war. He
