"I almost feel sorry for him," Roseen said as she looked at Loman's broken, sobbing figure, kneeling on the cold stone floor of the great hall.
"Don't," Cossot said, and there was a hint of steel in her voice that Roseen had never heard before. "He killed at least seven men tonight, and you heard what Lady Heila said. He didn't risk his own life to fight Dame Sybyll's army; he just sacrificed the poor men that Head Priest Germot sent him," she said, wondering if those poor acolytes had even known what it was they were volunteering for when Loman demanded a dozen 'arrows for his quiver.'
"And the whole time," Cossot said as the look in her eyes grew colder. "He acted like he was our savior. In a way, that's even worse than what Ian Hanrahan did."
