Wes and Erling rode in a silence that was more thoughtful than comfortable after that, each of them watching the head of the column for different reasons.
Wes was watching Garrik and Owain, his mind tumbling through the scraps of information his agents in Lothian city had given him when he arrived and combining them with the things he'd seen firsthand since then.
Iriso Barony wasn't wealthy enough to do much more than gather gossip from servants in Lothian Manor and merchants in the marketplace of Lothian City, but even that had told him a great deal.
The servants who had cleaned the Marquis's study after his death, for example, had mentioned that Bors Lothian left behind piles of deathbed decrees, though no one seemed to know their contents. A few, however, claimed that some of the decrees looked impressive enough to be grants of titles or lands.
